I'm considering rebuilding my home server (an HP MicroServer) for some higher capacity and dumping the single 250GB rpool disk and instead replace it with a pair of USB flash sticks (no need to preserve data, I'll copy stuff around and help the system along with booting). The question is, is this a good way to go about it? I plan on using the USB sticks only for holding rpool and booting off of them. All other data will be on a RAID-z consisting of 4x 2TB disks, so speed isn't all that necessary. I'm somewhat constrained by the number of SATA ports available, but I have plenty of USB slots (1 internal and 6 external) where I could put the media (and since the box is hidden away in a closet, nobody is ever going to be touching it).
Are there any gotchas with using USB attached storage as boot media in OI? Any experience with that? (For all I know, it's smooth and working.) Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
