Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: Any plans of using ZFS there? I don't know about Amazon's live disk resizing policy, but at least in our local Xen deployment of FreeBSD at Cambridge, ZFS seems like the sensible thing so that we can do live disk resizing during provision of

Patches to support (or at least make compile) Xen PV drivers on i386 HVM

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all: Something I'd like us to do for 9.0 (and maybe even 8.3) is include the Xen PV drivers in our GENERIC i386 and amd64 kernels. This will improve our just works factor running on Xen HVM by avoiding a mandatory kernel recompile to get access to PV drivers, in turn better supporting

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/17/10 01:29, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: Any plans of using ZFS there? I don't know about Amazon's live disk resizing policy, but at least in our local Xen deployment of FreeBSD at Cambridge, ZFS seems like the sensible thing so that we can do