[indiana-discuss] Acer 1GB Netbook for $99.99 (& Catch)

Richard Elling Richard.Elling at Sun.COM
Thu Jan 8 07:18:14 PST 2009


W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> BTW, it may not be wise to install OpenSolaris or any OS into a USB flash stick.  Most of the default configs write /tmp files to swap, and, unless you modify your vfstab/fstab file, your USB flash may get fried in a hurry.  :-)
>   

Disagree.  Since we use ZFS, it has a COW architecture and therefore
you don't need to worry about endurance, as you would with UFS or
most other file systems.
 -- richard




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