[ec2] disk partition configurations

[Darren Govoni]

Darn.

Well, I have software that runs on my images that needs access to the
data. If I have 50 servers, they each would ideally have their own copy
of this data so they don't need to be configured to find it somewhere
else.

As I understand it, its only possible to mount an EBS volume on 1 server
and knowledge of that volume would need to be provided (i.e. the new
server instance won't know it after booting).

So is there any clever way yet to automatically configure an image to
fetch and mount an EBS "instance" or copy so they all would have their
own? For example, if I make one that is permanent? I doubt it, but
aren't 100% sure.

thanks again.
Darren



On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 16:00 +0200, Thomas Hervé wrote:
> Le samedi 13 juin 2009 à 09:52 -0400, Darren Govoni a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >   Pardons if this is a more general question, but I am running the 8.10
> > beta1 on high-cpu instances. I notice the drives are partitioned more or
> > less into 3GB partitions. 
> > 
> >   I see the /mnt is 400GB but its not part of the image.
> > 
> >   Is there a way to specify that I need say a 500GB drive and at least a
> > 200GB partition somewhere that gets bundled into the image? I can't use
> > EBS or /mnt because I want some data burned into the image that is about
> > 120GB in size.
> > 
> > Is it possible?
> 
> No, the maximum size of an image is 10GB. Also, I think it would be
> pretty slow to create such a big image. I think EBS snapshots are the
> way to go here.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas
> 
>