On 01/26/2015 05:05 AM, John Long wrote: > Is anybody using a regular USB stick as a primary disk drive for OpenBSD and > if so how well do they work and how long do they last? Is this a reasonable > solution for an appliance or dev box and are there better alternatives that > will work over USB or the network? Specifically this box can boot and run > from USB but I don't know if it can run diskless or how well it would run.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemBoot Otto's one of the heads around here and thinks otherwise, though. I guess there isn't a strong consensus. If I understand correctly, USB 3.0 support isn't in the 5.6 release but is in the current snapshots. Using a USB 3.0 flash drive should make for a much faster bootable flash drive, assuming it works. There was just a discussion here relating to that, actually.
