Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:22:22 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Pat Maddox <pat@patmaddox.com>, freebsd-cloud@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Current status of ZFS AMIs on EC2? Message-ID: <12428f52-ea5a-a2e5-7eb6-e170c97f0e17@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <65D39FF2-C14D-430E-A83B-0C3606E0D7AF@patmaddox.com> References: <65D39FF2-C14D-430E-A83B-0C3606E0D7AF@patmaddox.com>
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On 9/23/21 1:49 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: > Hi there, I came across Colin’s 2019 post announcing ZFS AMIs for EC2 [1]. I > haven’t seen any more recent information regarding ZFS on EC2. I’ve launched > one instance, and it appears to work fine from initial tests (including > recovering a known working boot env using beadm). > > I have also installed the official 12 and 13 releases, and see that they are UFS. > > I have two questions: > > 1. Is anyone using the ZFS AMIs for production? Yes. (Not me, but I've heard from several people who are. I'll let them identify themselves if they choose to do so.) > 2. Why has ZFS not been incorporated into the official releases? ZFS, and other "flavoured" AMIs, were blocked waiting for this: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-31-FreeBSD-AMI-SSM-Public-Parameters.html Now it's just a matter of finding time; my current top priority for EC2 is speeding up the FreeBSD boot process. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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