[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

[Alex Lam S.L.]

I did try that when building my current home server with just one USB
stick. My experience was that the resulting OS is quite a bit slower,
may be due to a bad choice of stick on my part.

Anyway, I ended up with 1x500GB rpool disk and 5x2TB RAID-Z1 pool
using an Asus mATX motherboard and i3-2120T.


Alex.



On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm considering rebuilding my home server (an HP MicroServer) for some
> higher capacity and dumping the single 250GB rpool disk and instead
> replace it with a pair of USB flash sticks (no need to preserve data,
> I'll copy stuff around and help the system along with booting). The
> question is, is this a good way to go about it? I plan on using the USB
> sticks only for holding rpool and booting off of them. All other data
> will be on a RAID-z consisting of 4x 2TB disks, so speed isn't all that
> necessary. I'm somewhat constrained by the number of SATA ports
> available, but I have plenty of USB slots (1 internal and 6 external)
> where I could put the media (and since the box is hidden away in a
> closet, nobody is ever going to be touching it).
>
> Are there any gotchas with using USB attached storage as boot media in
> OI? Any experience with that? (For all I know, it's smooth and working.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso
>
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