Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:51:30 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any plans for EC2 AMIs with RootOnZFS? Message-ID: <01000167dd7b16cd-58ee733f-c662-42d5-9c75-2301fbc8377a-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CBQ%2B282amu-d%2BcxUehLBuhPKSrWTnft1_eSvY5FNKynwg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOc73CBQ%2B282amu-d%2BcxUehLBuhPKSrWTnft1_eSvY5FNKynwg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/23/18 7:12 AM, Ben Woods wrote: > Is there any plans to provide official FreeBSD AMIs in the AWS Marketplace > which use RootOnZFS out of the box? Nothing concrete yet, but it's on my radar. Now that FreeBSD AMIs are being published by a separate (release engineering) account, I'm more comfortable with working on more "experimental" AMIs. (And if this turns out to be widely useful I'll talk to the release engineering team about adding it to the set they publish.) > If not, is the recommended method to get this to create my own AMI > following the process described in the link below? > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html The AMI Builder is really designed for UFS -- it boots up with a UFS filesystem on disk and mounted, just waiting for you to make changes and then run 'mkami' to package it into an AMI. But I guess you could copy everything off that UFS filesystem, unmount it, turn the disk into ZFS, then copy everything back... FWIW, you don't need to go through the complete process described in that blog post -- I've already created a FreeBSD 12.0 AMI Builder. It's in the us-east-1 region, ami-09baac3ede1d33201. -- 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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