[OmniOS-discuss] Boot from mirrored USB?

[Theo Schlossnagle]

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.


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Chris Nehren <
cnehren+omnios-discuss at omniti.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if their
> configuration supports mirroring, though.
>
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> Chris Nehren
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