Unfortunately the snapshotting process used by the is really slow, as
you've noticed, and there's not much we can do to make that faster. We've
discussed other methods for growing the filesystem but haven't finished it
yet.
For working with S3, instead of s3fs you're more than welcome to give
Used cloud man to create a new cluster on Feb 22 and picked 500GB as the
initial size of the data drive. Working with TCGA exome DNA seq data didn't
take long to fill that up. Used the cloud man admin interface to resize from
500GB to 1TB and the resize operation took 15 hours. Not sure if that
