gm_sjo wrote: > Sorry, one thing I forgot to ask- How safe would it be to run Solaris > from a flash device (either CF<>ATAPI or USB Flash)? Is there any > recommended practise for doing this? Not sure if there's an embedded > guideline/distribution. I'm looking at a 4 drive enclosure but I dont > want the o/s on that storage (don't think I even can with zfs, can I?)
There are no formal guidelines that I know of. Sun actually has now started giving out OpenSolaris on USB sticks at conferences rather than CD; Belenix has a great "run from stick" distro option. I will say that I benchmarked several USB sticks that I've bought and collected, and used IDE/CF adapters.... conventional flash isn't as fast as you'd think. The latency is low, but the throughput is really poor, like 10MB/s poor. Thats my experience anyway. I'd personally opt for a cheap 7,200 RPM disk over an flash card. SSD's of course are a different story. That said... for the purpose of data transport I use USB all the time. I have ZFS Zpool's on my USB Sticks and iPods. I even bought a pack of 4 1GB USB sticks, put them on a key ring, and then plug them all in as a single 3.sometingGB RAIDZ Pool... this combined with compression is awesome! Plus, it works with my Mac. :) If your serious about flash storage, I'd recommend checking out NewEgg's deals on cheap SSD; they are down under $200 now. benr. _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
