On 1/20/21 5:12 AM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > Colin, I am only slowly realising the impact of the points you have made. :) > >>> On 20 Dec 2020, at 18:33, Colin Percival <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> * The EC2 API "shutdown" / "reboot" message is sent via a pl061 GPIO device >>> and we're dropping it on the floor; consequently "reboot" does nothing at >>> all, while "shutdown" does nothing until EC2 times out and does a hard >>> poweroff (without filesystems being unmounted etc). > > I have noticed a bunch of artefacts left over from unclean shutdowns, which I > assume are caused by the above not calling the shutdown rc.d scripts. Do you > know if this is likely to get implemented any time soon, or are you aware of a > simple workaround?
If you run 'shutdown' from inside the EC2 instance it should work fine. Just don't use the EC2 API to stop the ARM instances. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
