Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:28:22 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AWS with root-on-zfs? Message-ID: <20200316032822.GA88516@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20200315055157.GA64075@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200310033243.GB170@admin.sibptus.ru> <c5fb19c0-26b6-8771-2507-92768c2bdaee@FreeBSD.org> <20200310084330.GA4688@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200315055157.GA64075@admin.sibptus.ru>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Victor Sudakov wrote: > 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/00020= 0.html > >=20 > > Good news. > >=20 > > >=20 > > > I've used these with great success. I haven't seen an announcement o= f a > > > 12.1-RELEASE version yet -- not sure what Colin's plans are, but I th= ink > > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > On AWS, the loader prompt is inaccesible, so how can we utilize this > powerful feature? Answering my own question, "bectl activate" has the "-t" flag: If the [-t] flag is given, this takes effect only for the next boot. This does not work in bhyve for some reason (does not boot the temporary BE= ): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D244838 but may work in AWS because it does not use bhyveload hopefully. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJebvJWAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0hHwIALGuo43+kG1Si37FbmvRYEVQ VhC/P6vJq2s9Tw28uc63nckLuG2UMyPvhJUl9KLwlEX2Ig1ERA0wHLf24TV9tUFb GqquHjja9sLx5vA+CmOHF1t6bmBd6Sk1Ss9KyJ6bFan9hXLEE/RXp8Dx2QJt92Di iLoaOK3lWuMTS8hs6JUcAE7IaEEgp2689MXXi48K0Xc0pATCnN38ZVLQNBqjxp3u vk0us1DCXaeRJqhlrRZIJ5c+Zo6gJhUDme2o+0X/annx44n+/Ur55FaSwrNbPX/c cHmU8ed/yHXEe8a0c2tC/nuMKElWhzFq+A3qEHY9bzT80g/xuKWkXaR0iJVVXDw= =yt7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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