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-disc...@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. > > -- > Chris Nehren > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > -- Theo Schlossnagle http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle
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