On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like compact flash because it is fairly easy to use as a cheap alternative to a hard drive. I mirror the cf drives exactly like they are hard drives so if one fails i just replace it. USB is a little harder to do that with because they are just not as consistent as compact flash. But honestly it should work and many people do this.
I've ended up purchasing two 8GB CF cards and the required CF-SATA adapters.
How, once I install OpenSolaris on the system using the two CF cards as a mirrored ZFS root pool, can I leverage any of the free space for some kind of ZFS specific performance improvement? slog? etc?
Thanks for everyone's input! A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel: +1.877.498.3772 x113 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
