Any plans for EC2 AMIs with RootOnZFS?

[Jay Edwards]

I've got a fairly robust collection of utilities for Google Cloud that:

1) Starts up an official FreeBSD image
2) Mounts a separate drive (the ZFS target)
3) Installs the release; installs all of the various GCP packages
4) Configures a bunch of custom stuff applicable to me
5) Creates an image that is then used as a base for any further custom
images.

It shouldn't be that difficult to add AWS support.

Jay Edwards


On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 8:48 PM Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:

> [Adding freebsd-fs in the hope of finding more ZFS people.]
>
> On 12/23/18 3:51 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> > On 12/23/18 7:12 AM, Ben Woods wrote:
> >> Is there any plans to provide official FreeBSD AMIs in the AWS
> Marketplace
> >> which use RootOnZFS out of the box?
> >
> > Nothing concrete yet, but it's on my radar.  Now that FreeBSD AMIs are
> being
> > published by a separate (release engineering) account, I'm more
> comfortable
> > with working on more "experimental" AMIs.  (And if this turns out to be
> widely
> > useful I'll talk to the release engineering team about adding it to the
> set
> > they publish.)
>
> I've created an experimental FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS AMI in the us-east-1 region:
> ami-0786f5b55d5aa573f
>
> Since I'm basically a ZFS newbie (I run it on my laptop, but only with the
> default setup from the installer, and I've never used any of the fancy ZFS
> features) I don't know if I've set everything up properly.  So far I have
> one piece of feedback, which is that I should have marked canmount=off for
> zroot.
>
> Can people please try out this AMI and let me know if there's anything else
> (ZFS-related) which I should fix?  Some time next week I'll fix whatever
> people notice and build AMIs for all the regions.
>
> --
> 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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