--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Jim Klimov wrote:
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> Now, what about the other 44 small partitions? ;)
Huh? You've got 9x5 disk arrays. So one 5 disk array has a 5 way mirror of 10
GB s0 slices to boot. Why would you do this on the other 8 sets of disk?
For example, w/ 40x4 TB EFI label drives and 5
Only thing you should care about:
- use OI server edition, disable atime
- use fast and quite large USB sticks
(16 GB, prefer USB3 even with only USB2 ports used)
- ZFS mirror two of them for better reliability
Backup them from time to time (USB cloner)
ps
I moved to a ready to use ZFS se
On 2013-03-01 15:27, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
As for something like Thumper, you shouldn't have all the disks in the same vdev anyway.
10 GB of disk space is about $0.50US. So "wasting" a few small s0 slices in a
5-8 disk RAIDZ array is cheaper than using USB flash drives. Also 100% allocat
Jim Klimov
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing OI on USB stick
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
> Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 7:56 AM
> On 2013-03-01 14:44, Reginald
> Beardsley wrote:
> > I'd ask why? There's no requirement that there
>
On 2013-03-01 14:44, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
I'd ask why? There's no requirement that there only be a single OI slice per
disk. The installer and various other things push in that direction for some
reason, but it's not a valid limitation that I can see.
Well, approaches good for smaller m
I'd ask why? There's no requirement that there only be a single OI slice per
disk. The installer and various other things push in that direction for some
reason, but it's not a valid limitation that I can see.
Put rpool in a 2-way mirror using the s0 slices and then do whatever you want
w/ the
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-03-01 02:40, Peter Wood wrote:
>>
>> Any reason not to install OI on USB sticks? Anything I should be careful
>> about?
>>
>
> We did have a box with USB sticks in it "forever", written rather
> intensively. Every few months they wore o
On 2013-03-01 02:40, Peter Wood wrote:
I'm planning to install OI on an USB stick and then mirror rpool to another
USB stick. This will free up the 2 HDD that were used for the OS to be used
for storage.
The USB sticks will be plugged in to two USB ports and stay there forever.
No unplugging or
