From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 13:22:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8C816A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6200943D4B for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mathias@haas.se) Received: from p3-550.haas.se ([213.114.148.49] [213.114.148.49]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with SMTP id <20031218212212.URGM352.mxfep01.bredband.com@p3-550.haas.se> for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:22:12 +0100 Received: (qmail 20413 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2003 12:32:47 -0000 Received: from localhost.haas.se (HELO mail.haas.se) (127.0.0.1) by: 32:47 -0000 Received: from 193.14.163.194 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mathias@haas.se) by mail.haas.se with HTTP; Thu,: 32:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <27378.193.14.163.194.1071750767.squirrel@mail.haas.se> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:32:47 +0100 (CET) From: mathias@haas.se To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Hotplug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:22:16 -0000 Hello! Perhaps this is more of a filesystem question but I thought that maybe firewire-users have heard this question before. I intend to buy an external firewire harddisk as a cheap backup for my customers FreeBSD-server. Does FreeBSD support hotplugging of fire-wire harddisks? (That is: Can I remove it while the filesystem is in use without unmounting it?) - Or should I go with some different kind of solution? /mathias