> In the long run some USB stick problems may surface > because the wear<br> > leveling is done in 16MB sections, and you could blow > your stick if<br> > you have a 16MB region which is ``hot''. > I wonder if parts of a zpool<br> > are hotter than others? With AVS the dirty > bitmap might be hot.<br> > <br> > I guess you are not erally imagining sticks though, > just testing with<br> > them. You're imagining something more like > the time capsule, where<br> > the external drive is bigger than the internal one, > that it'll be used<br> > more on laptops. At home you keep a large, > heavy disk which holds a<br> > mirror of your laptop ZFS root on one slice, plus an > unredundant<br> > scratch pool made of the extra free space.<br>
Yes that's exactly what I had in mind. I as ambiguous about the specifics, but I actually was testing with an external notebook drive enclosure connected via USB. Probably wouldn't have as fancy a name as Time Capsule though since it would work with off the shelf parts :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
