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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:

> Some of the Plan B stuff may be pointers in the right direction since
> they deal with file servers coming and going on a regular basis.  Its
> just in the hot-plug case, the file server which is coming and going
> is a physical device.

also, there are pointers to remangle since it really is in the kernel. 
It would be nice if devices could be as easily popped into and out of 
existence as servers are now.

ron