[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 08/06/2012 04:43 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
> On 7 August 2012 00:21, 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?
>> 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.)
> 
> I have tried several different USB sticks inside my HP Microserver as
> the rpool for OI installs.  While the system supports doing it the
> experience was universally poor; ranging from pathologically slow
> boots right down to periodic checksum errors on some sticks under
> heavy I/O load to rpool filesystems.
> 
> I ended up installing a 60GB SSD in the optical drive bay and
> attaching it to the fifth internal SATA port (the "OD" port), having
> applied a BIOS hack to turn it into an AHCI port.  This worked very
> well.

Thanks, this clears it up for me.

Cheers,
--
Saso