EC2 "C5" family instances

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 17 01:59:15 UTC 2017


I finally got around to writing my blog post explaining the situation with
"C5" EC2 instances:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-11-17-FreeBSD-EC2-C5-instances.html

For those of you who don't care about the details, the short story is "hotplug
is hard; until FreeBSD 11.2 is released, plan on rebooting if you attach or
detach EBS disks".

-- 
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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