00:41:13 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. 00:52:32 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 00:53:03 mostly the common cruzer sticks 01:24:54 copec: We used to have good luck, I feel, with Kingston DataTraveller drives 01:25:13 you really have to look at the spec sheets though, because all the manufacturers change the speeds and durabilities and stuff quite often 01:25:24 and there's a constant churn of brand labels even within a manufacturer 01:25:40 Ultimately actually getting them and trying them out is the only way to know if they're going to be any good 01:25:46 We spent a lot of time on this at Joyent haha 01:26:40 Yeah, it really is a crap shoot. Even some that should be reliable can have a bad batch of them. 01:27:21 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. 01:27:56 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. 02:11:26 Except if you would like to have real hardware/firmware controlled read-only USB flash. 04:10:46 Is there anyway for me to run my own pkgsrc on our admin network? 04:11:11 I'd like to have smartctl on all the nodes... but don't wont them routing 05:59:05 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? 16:13:50 or even just use scp + pkg_add 20:55:44 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 20:56:44 * copec adds personal cron to read release notes 21:00:41 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 21:04:34 Dan blogged it: https://kebe.com/blog/?p=504