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 -- DTrace Conference, April 3, 2012, http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf ZFS Performance and Training [email protected] +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
