`<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I avoided USB with Solaris for a long time due to performance and reliability problems. </div><div>Modern USB sticks are fast and reliable especially when combined to a ZFS mirror</div><div><br></div><div>Now I am more and more convinced, that booting a ZFS SAN is best done via mirrorred USB sticks.</div><div>No other method is as flexible and serious boot problems can be fixed without delay using a spare stick.</div><div><br></div><div>Even updates are painles. Use a spare stick, configure on a spare machine and updates are only a reboot with another stick.</div><div><br></div><div>With modern sticks, I do not see the need of a redirect of folders with some write activity to RAM like SmartOS or EON are doing.</div><div>Keep it simple, keep it default.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>Am 22.02.2013 um 22:37 schrieb Rob Logan:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>> about a ready to use mirrorred USB based NAS/SAN<br><br>cool... I did that too<br><a href="http://rob.com/lancair/2013.01/usb.jpg">http://rob.com/lancair/2013.01/usb.jpg</a><br><br>but for USB write leveling<br><br>we might want research what files to link to /tmp (ramdisk)<br><br>/var/adm/messages<br>/var/adm/wtmpx<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rob<br>_______________________________________________<br>OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br>OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com<br>http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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