On 9-Aug-09, at 3:50 , Erik Trimble wrote:
Also, I'd recommend you not forget to remove the Swap and Dump
volumes from the CF rpool. You could theoretically keep Dump, but,
honestly, why bother. So, you could likely get a full install of
OSOL on a 4GB CF card, and maybe even a 2GB card,
Ian Collins wrote:
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 15:16 , Ian Collins wrote:
This ended up being a costly mistake, the environment I ended up
with didn't play well with Live Upgrade. So I suggest what ever you
do, make sure you can create a new BE and boot into it before
committing.
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow
for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like
compact flash because it is fairly easy to
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 15:16 , Ian Collins wrote:
This ended up being a costly mistake, the environment I ended up with
didn't play well with Live Upgrade. So I suggest what ever you do,
make sure you can create a new BE and boot into it before committing.
I assume this was
On 4-Aug-09, at 16:54 , Ian Collins wrote:
Use a CompactFlash card (the board has a slot) for root, 8 drives
in raidz2 tank, backup the root regularly
If booting/running from CompactFlash works, then I like this one.
Backing up root should be trivial since you can back it up into
your big
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on SOME
machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow for usb
booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like compact flash
because it is fairly easy to use as a cheap alternative to a hard drive. I
mirror
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow
for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like
compact flash because it
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:50 , Kyle McDonald wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to
allow for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i
like compact flash because it is fairly easy to
i've seen these before, if i remember right, it has a jumper on it to set as
a sort of onboard raid0 or raid1...i'm not sure it it has a jbod mode
thoughpersoanlly i prefer the small single cf to sata adapters, you'd be
surprised how thin they are, you can attatch them with screws or even hot
if it's this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186051 it works
perfectly. I've used them on several machines. They just show up as sata
drives. That unit also has a very tiny red led that lights upit's QUITE
brightbut you likely won't see it if it's inside
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:50 , Kyle McDonald wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to
allow for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i
like compact flash because it is
I've had SOME problem with the ide ones in the past. It depends on the card
you get with idethe sata ones tend to work regardless...I'm not saying
not to use ide, i'm just saying you might have to research your cf cards if
you do. not all ide-cf will boot.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM,
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow
for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like
compact flash because it
Excellent advice, thans Ian.
A.
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On 2009-08-06, at 15:16, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote:
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 4-Aug-09, at 16:54 , Ian Collins wrote:
Use a CompactFlash card (the board has a slot) for root, 8
drives in raidz2 tank, backup the root
Thomas Burgess wrote:
that's strange...it works for me.at least the ones i've used have
worked with opensolaris freebsd and linux.
It just shows up as a normal sata drive. did you try more than one
type of compactflash card?
with the IDE unit, it was ALWAYS due to the cardmost of them
On 5-Aug-09, at 0:14 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i boot from compact flash. it's not a big deal if you mirror it
because you shouldn't be booting up very often. Also, they make
these great compactflash to sata adapters so if yer motherboard has
2 open sata ports then you'll be golden there.
i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there SOMEWHERE, the
sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and very
very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the drive tray in
my machine, you can easily make a bracket...i know a guy who used double
On 5-Aug-09, at 12:07 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there
SOMEWHERE, the sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75
inches across and very very thin, i was able to mount them side by
side on top of the drive tray in my machine, you can
On 5-Aug-09, at 12:21 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
i would be VERY surprised if you couldn't fit these in there
SOMEWHERE, the
sata to compactflash adapter i got was about 1.75 inches across and
very
very thin, i was able to mount them side by side on top of the
drive tray in
my machine, you
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Quite a few computers still come with a legacy PCI slot. Are there PCI cards
which act as a carrier for one or two CompactFlash devices and support system
boot?
For example, does this product work well with OpenSolaris? Can it
work as a boot
On 4-Aug-09, at 19:46 , Chris Du wrote:
Yes Constellation, they also have sata version.
CA$350 is way too
high. It's CA$280 for SAS and CA$235 for SATA,
500GB in Vancouver.
Wow, that is a much better price than I've seen:
http://pricecanada.com/p.php/Seagate-Constellation-720
Hi All,
I am about to setup a personal data server on some decent hardware (1u
SuperServer, Xeon, LSI SAS controller, SAS backplane). Well at least,
it's decent hardware to me. :)
After reading Richard's blog post, I'm still a little unsure how to
proceed.
Details:
- I have 8 drives
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Adam Sherman wrote:
4. Use a CompactFlash card (the board has a slot) for root, 8 drives in
raidz2 tank, backup the root regularly
If booting/running from CompactFlash works, then I like this one.
Backing up root should be trivial since you can back it up into your
big
I'd create a mirror for rpool and the rest in another pool using raidz2.
Another note, have you bought disks already? You may want to take a look at
2.5 SAS disks from Seagate as they are enterprise grade with different
firmware for better error recovery. I know the SAS backplane is picky
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 4-Aug-09, at 16:08 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Adam Sherman wrote:
4. Use a CompactFlash card (the board has a slot) for root, 8 drives
in raidz2 tank, backup the root regularly
If booting/running from CompactFlash works, then I like this one.
Backing
On 4-Aug-09, at 16:18 , Chris Du wrote:
Another note, have you bought disks already? You may want to take a
look at 2.5 SAS disks from Seagate as they are enterprise grade
with different firmware for better error recovery. I know the SAS
backplane is picky sometimes. You may see disks
Yes Constellation, they also have sata version. CA$350 is way too high. It's
CA$280 for SAS and CA$235 for SATA, 500GB in Vancouver.
If you already have the disks, then forget about it.
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i boot from compact flash. it's not a big deal if you mirror it because you
shouldn't be booting up very often. Also, they make these great
compactflash to sata adapters so if yer motherboard has 2 open sata ports
then you'll be golden there.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Du
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