[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS considered in-memory OS ?

John Barfield john.barfield at bissinc.com
Sat Jun 27 14:28:23 UTC 2015


I’m booting off of a pair SLC USB sticks today. 

They’re extremely fast boot still not as fast as SmartOS running in 
memory. 

I guess I’ll do some googling to get omni running in memory :p


John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer
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BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 







On 6/26/15, 9:23 PM, "Bob Friesenhahn" <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> 
wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Günther Alka wrote:
>
>> booting from a good pair of 32 GB USB sticks is possible.
>> (Turn off atime)
>> 
>> But I would prefer a pair of 32 GB DOMs like
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SATADOM.cfm
>
>The next big thing seems to be M.2 PCIe cards, which are a whole lot 
>faster.  Hopefully they will work with OmniOS.  I have two Samsung 
>SM951s on the way for use as boot drives (over-kill) ...
>
>Bob
>-- 
>Bob Friesenhahn
>bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
>GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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