EC2 Instances Future
Michael Sierchio
kudzu at tenebras.com
Wed Apr 10 20:04:40 UTC 2013
I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux"
grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on
another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of
caveats -
- Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when
modifying the boot device (after mounting rw).
- Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful
- Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences
Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this
way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock
weirdness in 8.3).
No Windoze Tax. ;-)
- M
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers <jflowers at ezo.net> wrote:
> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a year) to
> avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller (t1.micro,
> m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but don't find anything
> much online about a possible solution. Probably because I don't understand as
> much as I think.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jim Flowers <jflowers at ezo.net>
>
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