Damon, You should test it to determine, which one of the events (HostUp or HostInit) will fulfill your needs best.
Nick 2009/9/4 damonjebb <[email protected]>: > > Hi Nick, > > I had hoped that the mount would happen as a result of the fstab > entry, but I suppose a script would be a relatively simple solution. > > Would you trigger this script on 'host up'? > > Thanks > Damon > > On Sep 4, 1:22 pm, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote: >> Damon, >> >> You mount filesystems from your scripts, correct? >> >> Why not to check mountpoint exists and create this directory otherwise >> within your script? >> >> If you will unmount the external filesystem, its mountpoint will be >> included in the bundle. >> >> Its controlled by both Scalr scripts and Amazon AMI tools. >> >> Nick >> >> 2009/9/4 damonjebb <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> > This is a bad thing becasue it requires a synchronisation of the empty >> > mount point prior to making other changes that will often require >> > another synchronisation. When synchronisation and start up take >> > around an hour on average this is a significant inconvenience. >> >> > Is this something that is controlled by the scalr feature set or >> > Amazon? >> >> > Would I be right to think that unmounting the folder prior to >> > synchronising would allow it to be included in the image bundle? >> >> > Thanks >> > Damon >> >> > On Sep 4, 10:20 am, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Damon, >> >> >> Mounted filesystems are not included into image bundle as well as >> >> their mountpoints. You should create them yourself before mount. >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> 2009/9/4 damonjebb <[email protected]>: >> >> >> > I'm not sure whether this is a scalr thing or amazon, but; I've >> >> > noticed on several occasions that the synchronisation of mounted >> >> > folders fails. To replicate... >> >> >> > 1) Create a new, empty folder as a mount point for NFS >> >> > 2) export an NFS share from another role >> >> > 3) mount the NFS share on the new empty folder. >> >> > 4) synchronise the role with the mounted folder >> >> >> > On restarting the role that had mounted the share the folder created >> >> > for the mount does not exist and has to be recerated before the mount >> >> > can be completed. >> >> >> > Thanks >> >> > Damon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
