hardware for home use large storage

[Bruce Simpson]

On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote:
>
> I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a 
> concern.  Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the device, pull, replace with 
> a new one, glabel, and zfs replace.  It seems to work fine as long as 
> nothing is accessing the device you are replacing (otherwise you will 
> get a kernel panic a few minutes down the line).  mav at FreeBSD.org has 
> also committed a large patch set to 9-CURRENT which implements 
> "proper" SATA/AHCI hot-plug support and error-recovery through CAM.

I've been running with this patch in 8-STABLE for well over a week now 
on my desktop w/o issues; I am using main disk for dev, and eSATA disk 
pack for light multimedia use.