Monthly Archives: November 2016

VirtualBox USB Flash for ZFS

To set up your USB Flash drives as pass-through in VirtualBox, here is what you can do. Next, plug in your flash drive and record its device. For me, it was /dev/sde. Look in /var/log/syslog, or dmesg output, for the … Continue reading

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ZFS Flash Drives

As an experiment, I created a small (8GB) ZFS volume in a mirror configuration using two 8GB USB Flash drives. The purpose was to put “small, but really important things” on this storage system. It actually ended up being two … Continue reading

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