Heroku runs on ec2, no? What prevents exposure of an EBS block to an app?

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Oren Teich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Neil,
> There aren't any plans for shared storage right now.  I wish I could
> say otherwise.  The big challenge is that we're able to achieve our
> scaling and overall cool features by imposing certain constraints.  A
> read-only file system is one of those.  If we had a shared filesystem,
> we wouldn't be able to offer the scalability or performance that makes
> our platform so unique.  There are some interesting plugins that some
> 3rd partys have in development that will capture filesystem requests
> and send them to S3 instead.  Hopefully as these come out they might
> help address some of the constraints for you.
>
> Believe me, I wish we could figure out a way to give you a writeable
> filesystem!
>
> Good luck,
> Oren
>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:53 AM, Neil wrote:
>
>>
>> One of the big issues we have with Heroku as a business at the moment
>> is the read-only file system and the fact that this then renders some
>> of our legacy apps, and our CMS of choice, BrowserCMS, unable to be
>> deployed without some serious hacker-age.
>>
>> Question is, are there any plans at all for some sort of shared
>> storage, where I can somehow define a directory or two that should be
>> shared across all dyno's serving my application, as well as across all
>> deploys of my application?
>>
>> For me, this is a major thing, and it would be good to remove one of
>> the big barriers that people might have.
>> >
>
>
> >
>

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