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.
The problem with the speed of the USB sticks is not related to USB 2.0, the flash memories used by the USB sticks are terribly slow. The USB hard disks work like a charm. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
