[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 06/08/2012 16:21, Sašo Kiselkov 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?
>...
> 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.)

It's actually an option for some Sun servers (X4550, X6275), but
personally I won't do that if you need swap,dump and other stuff
constantly changing (databases, etc.).
Instead, on my home workstation I run everything from SSDs now
(no spinning rust at all), and that really flies. Never saw
THAT small boot times before (BIOS-Firmware takes longer than OI
boot), and responsiveness on commands is A LOT better. But, of course,
that's still a bit expensive...
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