Adam Sherman wrote:
On 4-Aug-09, at 16:08 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Adam Sherman wrote:
4. Use a CompactFlash card (the board has a slot) for root, 8 drives
in raidz2 tank, backup the root regularly
If booting/running from CompactFlash works, then I like this one.
Backing up root should be trivial since you can back it up into your
big storage pool. Usually root contains mostly non-critical data.
The nice SAS backplane seems too precious to waste for booting.
Do you know if it is possible to put just grub, stage2, kernel on the
CF card, instead of the entire root?
You can move some of root to another device, but I don't think you can
move the bulk - /usr.
See:
http://docs.sun.com/source/820-4893-13/compact_flash.html#50589713_78631
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Ian.
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