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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:00:52 -0700
From:      "Pat Maddox" <pat@patmaddox.com>
To:        "Colin Percival" <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-cloud@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Current status of ZFS AMIs on EC2?
Message-ID:  <F625746C-5AF4-4995-B8FB-BC415CB1266B@patmaddox.com>
In-Reply-To: <12428f52-ea5a-a2e5-7eb6-e170c97f0e17@freebsd.org>
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On 23 Sep 2021, at 13:22, Colin Percival wrote:

> On 9/23/21 1:49 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>> Hi there, I came across Colin=E2=80=99s 2019 post announcing ZFS AMIs =
for =

>> EC2 [1]. I
>> haven=E2=80=99t seen any more recent information regarding ZFS on EC2.=
 =

>> I=E2=80=99ve 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-Para=
meters.html
>
> Now it's just a matter of finding time; my current top priority for =

> EC2
> is speeding up the FreeBSD boot process.

Great, thanks for the info. I=E2=80=99ve done a 12.0 -> 12.2 -> 13.0 upgr=
ade, =

all seems to be good.

Pat



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