[ec2] disk partition configurations

[Thomas Butter]

Hi Darren,

the easiest approach is to put your data in a tgz on S3 and fetch it
to a local partition in your startup scripts. Local partitions are  
faster and cheaper.

- Thomas

On 13.06.2009, at 19:00, Darren Govoni wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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