On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:55:49AM -0500, Libertas wrote:
> On 01/26/2015 05:05 AM, John Long wrote:
> > Is anybody using a regular USB stick as a primary disk drive for OpenBSD and
> > if so how well do they work and how long do they last? Is this a reasonable
> > solution for an appliance or dev box and are there better alternatives that
> > will work over USB or the network? Specifically this box can boot and run
> > from USB but I don't know if it can run diskless or how well it would run.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemBoot
>
> Otto's one of the heads around here and thinks otherwise, though. I
> guess there isn't a strong consensus.
>
> If I understand correctly, USB 3.0 support isn't in the 5.6 release but
> is in the current snapshots. Using a USB 3.0 flash drive should make for
> a much faster bootable flash drive, assuming it works. There was just a
> discussion here relating to that, actually.
AFAIK, there's no USB3 hardware in any of the Loongson machines.
-Otto
