From owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Fri Nov 17 01:59:15 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cloud@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1D2DF06AC for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:59:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (mail.tarsnap.com [54.86.246.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED8E748DE for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:59:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 53976 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2017 01:48:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by ec2-107-20-205-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2017 01:48:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 41172 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2017 01:52:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 17 Nov 2017 01:52:32 -0000 To: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org From: Colin Percival Subject: EC2 "C5" family instances Message-ID: <35dfff70-bef6-ec76-0b61-dd8fa148498d@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:52:32 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD on cloud platforms \(EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:59:15 -0000 I finally got around to writing my blog post explaining the situation with "C5" EC2 instances: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-11-17-FreeBSD-EC2-C5-instances.html For those of you who don't care about the details, the short story is "hotplug is hard; until FreeBSD 11.2 is released, plan on rebooting if you attach or detach EBS disks". -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid