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I’m confused by the wording “without wasting disks for the base OS” - I wouldn’t normally consider this a “waste”, would anyone else? There are big downsides to
by jama211 9mo ago
I’m confused by the wording “without wasting disks for the base OS” - I wouldn’t normally consider this a “waste”, would anyone else? There are big downsides to running off of a USB key all the time unless I’m missing something
- zja 9mo ago> This architecture has a variety of advantages including increased security, no need for patching, fast upgrades and recovery. SmartOS was developed by Joyent for their cloud computing product, it's primary use case isn't desktop computing. I think the advantages mentioned above were probably a bigger factor than the disk space. I would also guess that PXE would be the standard way to boot in a datacenter, not USB.
- jama211 9mo agoFair enough
- cnst 9mo agoThe biggest downside of running off of a USB key, is that it's super unreliable. How exactly does it make any sense to use ECC memory and ZFS RAID for error correction and redundancy, but then rely on the modern floppy disk for the OS itself?