FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE ZFS AMIs Now Available

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

Congratulations, Colin.

Are there any disk performance benefits when using ZFS vs UFS in the AWS EBS set-up?

Rafal
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Rafal Lukawiecki
Pardon brevity, mobile device.

> On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:09, Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci at p6m7g8.com> wrote:
> 
> Winning!
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 8:06 AM Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> 
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>> Hi EC2 users,
>> 
>> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE is now available as AMIs with ZFS root disks in all 16
>> publicly available EC2 regions:
>> 
>> eu-north-1 region: ami-08b2b0fa1cc85edfe
>> ap-south-1 region: ami-07764d99979e5ec91
>> eu-west-3 region: ami-0a836f46bdc4c3518
>> eu-west-2 region: ami-0e7bce0a20fe3902b
>> eu-west-1 region: ami-03b5ae82b793bad52
>> ap-northeast-2 region: ami-069724fe041920a0b
>> ap-northeast-1 region: ami-09d8e65f85aa017d8
>> sa-east-1 region: ami-0b28c0109e2f0f44a
>> ca-central-1 region: ami-0a3fee7dd1f79aaa4
>> ap-southeast-1 region: ami-043a7940712d24f8d
>> ap-southeast-2 region: ami-0d9cf4953f3b62f2f
>> eu-central-1 region: ami-030f799e0a791d922
>> us-east-1 region: ami-0295763c489ea2d6f
>> us-east-2 region: ami-054939ebd299da308
>> us-west-1 region: ami-03f74ad827943414e
>> us-west-2 region: ami-07489cd9448bfa3d0
>> 
>> The ZFS configuration (zpool named "zroot", mount point on /, /tmp,
>> /usr/{home,ports,src}, /var/{audit,crash,log,mail,tmp}) should match what
>> you get by installing FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE from the published install media
>> and selecting the defaults for a ZFS install.  Other system configuration
>> matches the FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE AMIs published by the release engineering
>> team.
>> 
>> I had to make one substantive change to 12.0-RELEASE, namely merging
>> r343918
>> (which teaches /etc/rc.d/growfs how to grow ZFS disks, matching the
>> behaviour
>> of the UFS AMIs in supporting larger-than-default root disks); I've MFCed
>> this to stable/12 so it will be present in 12.1 and later releases.
>> 
>> If you find these AMIs useful, please let me know, and consider donating to
>> support my work on FreeBSD/EC2 (https://www.patreon.com/cperciva).  If
>> there's enough interest I'll work with the release engineering team to add
>> ZFS AMIs to what they publish.
>> 
>> - --
>> Colin Percival
>> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
>> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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