[OmniOS-discuss] Boot from mirrored USB?

[Sriram Narayanan]

Some of my servers boot opendiana 151 from mirrored USB. I've tested this
on each server that we created a set for.

Ram
On Oct 31, 2013 7:01 AM, "Theo Schlossnagle" <jesus at omniti.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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