2012-05-31 6:14, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Jay Heyl wrote:
One idea is to use the external USB drives I've collected to create a
separate pool for the non-critical data. I have four 2TB USB drives that
have been performing flawlessly connected to Windows systems for quite a
We had servers (Solaris 10) setup with external USB drives for ZFS ...
and we had problems.
having more than 8 USB devices attached to a Solaris box caused us
problems, and in some cases having a USB keyboard/mouse connected was
enough to cause the whole USB subsystem to keel over.
after trying
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
I have been using USB drives in a mirror configuration for quite a few
years with zfs. No problems have been encountered due to using zfs. The
main thing I learned is to always export the pool before
On 05/31/12 14:08, Jay Heyl wrote:
That's excellent information. I'm sure you've saved me some future grief.
Thanks.
I have a slightly different story.
I had a Sun X4600 (x64) server running OpenSolaris. I was converting
over from an older system and tried to mirror an external USB drive onto
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Jay Heyl wrote:
One idea is to use the external USB drives I've collected to create a
separate pool for the non-critical data. I have four 2TB USB drives that
have been performing flawlessly connected to Windows systems for quite a
while. Any opinions on using them to set
A while ago I put together a server using OI and zfs that I was hoping
would provide me room to grow for well into the future. While I'm not yet
running out of room, the usage chart shows the future approaching
considerably faster than I had hoped. The primary storage pool is composed
of ten
