--- On Fri, 2/8/13, Gary Driggs <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Gary Driggs <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] The cylinder model & 4k sectors
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 9:53 AM
> On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Reginald
> Beardsley wrote:
> 
> > That is probably going to get torn down and a 4th disk
> added so I can run /export on RAIDZ2 and be able to take a 2
> disk failure on a 4 disk system w/o loss of data
> 
> Have you considered the option of installing the OS on a
> server grade USB drive?
> 

I assume you mean "thumb drive".  I rejected that because it's a single point 
of failure. There's no guarantee that it wouldn't corrupt the RAIDZ pool during 
a failure.  

A 10 GB rpool in s0 is 0.5% of a 2 TB disk.  So it's under $3 to have a 4-way 
mirrored rpool to support a 3.5+ TB RAIDZ2 /export.  That's cheaper than a USB 
flash and more robust.

Have Fun!
Reg


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