On 08/06/2012 04:43 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: > On 7 August 2012 00:21, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com> 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.) > > I have tried several different USB sticks inside my HP Microserver as > the rpool for OI installs. While the system supports doing it the > experience was universally poor; ranging from pathologically slow > boots right down to periodic checksum errors on some sticks under > heavy I/O load to rpool filesystems. > > I ended up installing a 60GB SSD in the optical drive bay and > attaching it to the fifth internal SATA port (the "OD" port), having > applied a BIOS hack to turn it into an AHCI port. This worked very > well.
Thanks, this clears it up for me. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
