libre #smartos

18 Feb 2023

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• 00:41
  gogofc
  I "assume" that doesn't matter as SmartOS runs in RAM and doesn't really write to USB continuously, so it won't get 'worn' out really.
• 00:52
  copec
  Yeah, I still get usb sticks that have only been written to a handful of times, and only used to boot off of, just die
• 00:53
  copec
  mostly the common cruzer sticks
• 01:24
  jclulow
  copec: We used to have good luck, I feel, with Kingston DataTraveller drives
• 01:25
  jclulow
  you really have to look at the spec sheets though, because all the manufacturers change the speeds and durabilities and stuff quite often
• 01:25
  jclulow
  and there's a constant churn of brand labels even within a manufacturer
• 01:25
  jclulow
  Ultimately actually getting them and trying them out is the only way to know if they're going to be any good
• 01:25
  jclulow
  We spent a lot of time on this at Joyent haha
• 01:26
  bahamat
  Yeah, it really is a crap shoot. Even some that should be reliable can have a bad batch of them.
• 01:27
  bahamat
  We've had DCs of hundreds of servers where there there will be like 25 of them were all crap, and the rest were rock solid that lasted forever.
• 01:27
  bahamat
  But you can also just use piadm to move the boot media onto the zpool and then you never have to worry about the USB.
• 02:11
  nikolam
  Except if you would like to have real hardware/firmware controlled read-only USB flash.
• 04:10
  Smithx10
  Is there anyway for me to run my own pkgsrc on our admin network?
• 04:11
  Smithx10
  I'd like to have smartctl on all the nodes... but don't wont them routing
• 05:59
  drscream
  Smithx10: you can simple mirror the packages to an internal pkgsrc binary mirror if that's what you're looking for. Than reconfigure your zones pkgin to use the internal mirror?
• 16:13
  nbjoerg
  or even just use scp + pkg_add
• 20:55
  copec
  I made a saltstack state to upgrade platform images a long time ago, and I knew there what was considered a hack to put the platform image on the zpool, but I somehow missed the memo for piadm
• 20:56
  » copec adds personal cron to read release notes
• 21:00
  copec
  Most of my servers that had an internal place for a 2.5" disk, I just changed to a small enterprise intel ssd anyways, deciding to standardize on a good disk for an ESP
• 21:04
  copec
  Dan blogged it: kebe.com/blog/?p=504