On 23 Sep 2021, at 13:22, Colin Percival wrote:
On 9/23/21 1:49 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
Hi there, I came across Colin’s 2019 post announcing ZFS AMIs for
EC2 [1]. I
haven’t seen any more recent information regarding ZFS on EC2.
I’ve launched
one instance, and it appears to work fine from initial tests
(including
recovering a known working boot env using beadm).
I have also installed the official 12 and 13 releases, and see that
they are UFS.
I have two questions:
1. Is anyone using the ZFS AMIs for production?
Yes. (Not me, but I've heard from several people who are. I'll let
them
identify themselves if they choose to do so.)
2. Why has ZFS not been incorporated into the official releases?
ZFS, and other "flavoured" AMIs, were blocked waiting for this:
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-31-FreeBSD-AMI-SSM-Public-Parameters.html
Now it's just a matter of finding time; my current top priority for
EC2
is speeding up the FreeBSD boot process.
Great, thanks for the info. I’ve done a 12.0 -> 12.2 -> 13.0 upgrade,
all seems to be good.
Pat
