From nobody Thu Sep 23 20:22:22 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-cloud@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BF517D3D17 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:22:29 +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 SMTP id 4HFmmj1lmmz4Wk0 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 41656 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2021 20:22:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dell7390.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2021 20:22:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 36366 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2021 20:22:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dell7390.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Sep 2021 20:22:22 -0000 From: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Current status of ZFS AMIs on EC2? To: Pat Maddox , freebsd-cloud@FreeBSD.org References: <65D39FF2-C14D-430E-A83B-0C3606E0D7AF@patmaddox.com> Message-ID: <12428f52-ea5a-a2e5-7eb6-e170c97f0e17@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:22:22 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 List-Id: FreeBSD on cloud platforms (EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.) List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-cloud List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <65D39FF2-C14D-430E-A83B-0C3606E0D7AF@patmaddox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4HFmmj1lmmz4Wk0 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 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