[OmniOS-discuss] Boot from mirrored USB?

[Valrhona]

I have been running OmniOS and Napp-It on my Dell T710 server, booting
off of a USB stick running on the internal port for several months,
with no issues or problems. I deliberately found and bought an SLC
flash-based USB stick for this purpose, on Taobao (China's Ebay) last
time I visited, which were dirt-cheap ($20 for 16 GB) and work like a
charm. This is the main fileserver I use everyday, and USB booting
works fine.

I am also running OpenIndiana on my major workstation, with mirrored
SLC Intel SSDs, and again no issues or problems; just followed the
standard installation guide, and everything works fine.

Peter

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:01 PM, 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.
>
>
> 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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