Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:51:57 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AWS with root-on-zfs? Message-ID: <20200315055157.GA64075@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20200310084330.GA4688@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200310033243.GB170@admin.sibptus.ru> <c5fb19c0-26b6-8771-2507-92768c2bdaee@FreeBSD.org> <20200310084330.GA4688@admin.sibptus.ru>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Victor Sudakov wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Is anyone using FreeBSD as a EC2 instance, what would you do if you > > > wanted a root-on-zfs AMI? > >=20 > > Colin Percival published some root-on-ZFS AMIs a while back -- see > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cloud/2019-February/000200.= html >=20 > Good news. >=20 > >=20 > > I've used these with great success. I haven't seen an announcement of a > > 12.1-RELEASE version yet -- not sure what Colin's plans are, but I think > > the idea was to offer this layout as an additional set of the official > > FreeBSD AMIs at some point. >=20 >=20 > I've just launched an EC2 instance with "FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-amd64 ZFS > (ami-054939ebd299da308)". It works! >=20 > I think I can freebsd-update it to 12.1 myself until a 12.1 AMI is > available. >=20 > Thanks! And I should go and support Colin's endeavor. One of the major advantages of the root-on-ZFS configuration is the possibility to select a different BE from the loader prompt if something goes wrong with the current BE. On AWS, the loader prompt is inaccesible, so how can we utilize this powerful feature? --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJebcJ9AAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0HsIH/AwBL1M3am6aEqgJ/zQBRZPx 72+OZKNdEfiZ+k3xaEAT5cbUbjE5XslxZbWgGdEIkS1IN1t16y/+Ne3s27RssCvT lBsO5ugbH6atA8NIrJwuSxrp/nlF3t+1ziYJdJ4nF3L3/EeDXMJvZ3VzeWBWNKoT age6zMaV5Q5I/PZAhqeVxf02klwqkcRsSf+OJx7QC/401FYYlC7d1x5zlMSWfPCH FBxFbhfhR8GJxWx3W1CZCrBIA4OjaP4Dyvtyvpq84C7mCpulaM5yXP8pynm7ccSE qV7YnaXKzaXm4ju0j4lAwtH6zowEz4spNnhkBNY6iIRUarYkPau61LPVeLDgq3w= =KeWl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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