Jonathan Adams <t12nsloo...@gmail.com> writes: > Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get > access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows > direct USB passthrough. > My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool > running on his Linux system.
[...] >> There are actually 3 pair of disks that were set up in mirrored >> zpools: 2 @ 500 gb (Older IDE) >> 2 @ 500 gb (oldish sata) >> 2 @ 750 gb (slightly newer sata) >> [...] Richard Elling <richard.ell...@richardelling.com> writes: > On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >> Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get >> access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows >> direct USB passthrough. >> My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool >> running on his Linux system. > > USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as > unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them. Is the kind of size (3.5 TB) and scale mentioned above available in usb drives? Any chance of mirrored pairs as described? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
