[OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

[Richard Elling]

On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:

> Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get
> access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows
> direct USB passthrough.
> My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool
> running on his Linux system.

USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as
unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them.
 -- richard

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