[ec2] Call for testing: Lucid EBS Root Images

[Scott Moser]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Eric Hammond wrote:

> Scott:
>
> When you fix the fstab problem, do you still plan to mount ephemeral0 as
> /mnt ?
>
> I lean in this direction to keep the EBS boot AMIs consistent with the
> S3 based AMIs.

Yes.  They'll be the same.  the bug was a result of metadata having
"ephemeral0" listed as "/dev/sda2" in an instance-store instance but as
"sda2" for a ebs instance. [1]

That said, the user can control this default behavior via cloud-config
now.  User data of the following will mount ephemeral0 on /opt:
#cloud-config
mounts:
 - [ ephemeral0, /opt ]

The same can also be specified in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg in re-bundled
images.

> Flip a coin and then move forward.  The user base will eventually be big
> enough that your way will be the right way :)

I think consistency makes sense.

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[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/revision/176