On 06/08/2012 16:21, Sašo Kiselkov 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.)
It's actually an option for some Sun servers (X4550, X6275), but personally I won't do that if you need swap,dump and other stuff constantly changing (databases, etc.). Instead, on my home workstation I run everything from SSDs now (no spinning rust at all), and that really flies. Never saw THAT small boot times before (BIOS-Firmware takes longer than OI boot), and responsiveness on commands is A LOT better. But, of course, that's still a bit expensive... -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT www-imk.fzk.de/asf/sat/grabowski/ www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
