6 Sun Fire V890 Dynamic Reconfiguration User’s Guide • August 2004
partition is not a vital system resource, because swap space is accessible through
multiple controllers, and additional swap space can be dynamically configured via
the swap(1M) command.
Note – Before detaching a PCI card that controls disk swap space, you must ensure
that the system’s remaining memory and disk swap space will be large enough to
accommodate currently running programs.
About Dynamic Reconfiguration
Limitations
This section describes the possible limitations you might encounter while using
dynamic reconfiguration.
Faulty Cards
Caution – Inserting a faulty card may cause a system crash. Use only cards that are
known to be functional.
When hot-plugging a PCI card, it is important to be aware that a newly inserted PCI
card with a serious failure can, when powered on, introduce failures in the bus
segment to which it is connected.
FC-AL Disk Arrays
For Sun StorEdge™ A5000 Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) disk arrays, the
firmware version must be ST19171FC 0413 or later.
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