I have been running OmniOS and Napp-It on my Dell T710 server, booting off of a USB stick running on the internal port for several months, with no issues or problems. I deliberately found and bought an SLC flash-based USB stick for this purpose, on Taobao (China's Ebay) last time I visited, which were dirt-cheap ($20 for 16 GB) and work like a charm. This is the main fileserver I use everyday, and USB booting works fine.
I am also running OpenIndiana on my major workstation, with mirrored SLC Intel SSDs, and again no issues or problems; just followed the standard installation guide, and everything works fine. Peter On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Theo Schlossnagle <je...@omniti.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss