[Thincrust-devel] Re: Auto-discard notification

[Bryan Kearney]

jsteer at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> 
> After doing a "yum check-update" and updating a couple of packages. 
> there wasn't enough room to install (for example) Fedora Directory. I 
> don't know whether I would have fit some part of LAMP on there (like 
> mySQL)..
>  
> So, perhaps my request of 100MB was a little short,  maybe 200 :-)..

ok.. We will look to bump up the amis a bit on the next build.

>  
> I am a little curious about your comment of "adding it back in" since 
> the F9 AMI had XFS. Was there something else needed? I just figured that 
> it was an F9->Amazon issue not necessarily something in the AMI itself.

I need to look into this today. I will play around and send back to the 
list.

>  
> BTW, keep up the good work.
> I wish I had time right now to dive into building an AMI from scratch 
> since I am very familiar with the livecd-creator technology, but perhaps 
> in a month or so when I have more time.

Thanks! Any feedback (postivve/negative) is appreciated.

>  
> thanks,
> jon
> 
> 
>  
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com 
> <mailto:bkearney at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
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