[Thincrust-devel] EBS Support on thincrust EC2 ami's not working..

[Bryan Kearney]

See below:

Jon Steer wrote:
> I was pretty psyched when I tripped across the thincrust AMI's. I had 
> been looking for stripped down appliance AMI's.  Unfortunately, I 
> discovered that neither the F8 or F9 AMI's will attach to a EBS volume.

That is a good comment. I will look to adding that back in. Originally 
the intent was to expose folks to the Appliance Operating System. But, I 
think it makes sense to expose the other Amazon services as well.

> 
> In the F8 case, the xfs filesystem is missing. In the F9 case, after 
> attaching to the volume ok,  the first operation on the device 
> (something like df -h) causes an immediate crash.
> You cannot reboot the instance afterwards leaving me to think that the 
> xfs filesystem doesn't match Amazons.
> 
> Unfortunately, given time constraints, I can't learn and build a 
> thincrust appliance in the schedule time allotted for this task.
> 
> One other note, when building a thincrust appliance, it would be useful 
> to leave at least 100MB on / so that you can at least download one or 
> two apps to play around with it. I found given the constraints that I 
> had to create a newer larger AMI to in order to play with it.

I show about 83 megs free when I launch 9. What were you looking to install?


-- bk