[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

[Bentley, Dain]

Google eon zfs. They are a usb illumos flavor. The community seems as friendly as this one.

FreeBSD is okay as well. I honestly have more experience with FreeBSD/ Linux but prefer BSD to Linux. To be frank when it comes to ZFS I think the setup and performance on OI is better than FreeBSD, but that is my own personal experience. Setting up a ZFS root pool on FreeBSD is a bear and just seems pieced together. You can just install UFS but its not recommended.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Reginald Beardsley [pulaskite at yahoo.com]
Received: Sunday, 27 Jan 2013, 9:08am
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org [openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org]
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

Several people have suggested FreeBSD for the OS for my N40L based ZFS server and using the internal USB socket w/ a flash drive for the OS  However, after trying FreeBSD 9.0 installed to an HDD, I'm not enthused about having to relearn FreeBSD admin. And I'm not GUI admin inclined.  I'd prefer to stick w/ what I'm most familiar with.

However, the idea has considerable attraction.  Has anyone done such a thing w/ OI?  A bunch of stuff would need to move out of rpool so that it was almost R/O, but I don't see any major obstacles.  I assume the LiveCD uses a memory filesystem for these, so I'd expect it to be pretty straight forward.

This still leaves the single point of failure for the root pool, but copies=2+ might give enough warning to avoid a crisis.  Creating a replacement from a disk image using dd would be pretty painless.

Any reports of success or failure?  I've seen rather poor USB flash performance, but that might be hardware specific.

Have Fun!
Reg

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