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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">napp-it has a web menu entry to create
ZFS mirrored disks or mirrored usb sticks (both bootable)<br>
following the blog of Constantin Gonzales:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/03/how-set-zfs-root-pool-mirror-oracle-solaris-11-express">http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/03/how-set-zfs-root-pool-mirror-oracle-solaris-11-express</a>
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With high quality and fast usb sticks especially in a mirrored
config and atime disabled, <br>
usb boot is a very attractive boot method where you can easily
create clones of sticks for backups <br>
or OS deployment (I offer a free Windows clone tool and
preconfigured OmniOS images for download at napp-it.org). <br>
Performance wise usb boot is quite ok.<br>
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Only problem: currently you can only boot from usb when you plugin
the sticks in those ports<br>
that were used during setup. It would be perfect it you may boot
from any usb port maybe on similar<br>
mainboards. But this seems a Grub restriction where the physical
bootdevice is hardcoded during setup.<br>
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On 31.10.2013 15:01, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I believe napp-it based on OmniOS also boots from
USB. The mirroring is hard because I don't think it is a native
ZFS boot -- works more like a ram disk.</div>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Chris Nehren <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div class="im">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben
Summers wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm speccing out some new hardware. It seems
challenging to get vendor supported configurations which
give you lots of discs on a Solarish OS, rather than using
horrid RAID cards.<br>
><br>
> The best config I've found so far seems to be a
Fujitsu RX200 with 4 internal 15k SAS discs (the internal
supported card can only do 8 drives if you use RAID), plus
a Fujitsu branded LSI controller connected to an Intel
3.5" JBOD array for bulk storage and maybe an SSD for ZIL.<br>
><br>
> Because I'd like to use all the internal discs for a
database as a pair of mirrors in a single JBOD, I was
wondering if anyone boots from USB discs?<br>
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SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if
their<br>
configuration supports mirroring, though.<br>
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Chris Nehren<br>
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