Any plans for EC2 AMIs with RootOnZFS?

Andrew Thompson andy at fud.org.nz
Sun Dec 23 21:15:34 UTC 2018


On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 07:54, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there any plans to provide official FreeBSD AMIs in the AWS Marketplace
> which use RootOnZFS out of the box?
>
> If not, is the recommended method to get this to create my own AMI
> following the process described in the link below?
> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html



I have found it is easiest to install on VirtualBox and then use the
release tools from the live-cd to set everything up. Some basic
instructions here,
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/a5bv9n/question_creating_a_zfs_enabled_ami_for_ec2_from/


Andrew


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