[ec2] disk partition configurations

[Thomas Hervé]

Le samedi 13 juin 2009 à 13:00 -0400, Darren Govoni a écrit :
> Darn.
> 
> Well, I have software that runs on my images that needs access to the
> data. If I have 50 servers, they each would ideally have their own copy
> of this data so they don't need to be configured to find it somewhere
> else.
> 
> As I understand it, its only possible to mount an EBS volume on 1 server
> and knowledge of that volume would need to be provided (i.e. the new
> server instance won't know it after booting).
> 
> So is there any clever way yet to automatically configure an image to
> fetch and mount an EBS "instance" or copy so they all would have their
> own? For example, if I make one that is permanent? I doubt it, but
> aren't 100% sure.

You can create an empty EBS volume, put your data in there, create a
snapshot.

Then, for every instance you launch, you create a volume based on the
original snapshot and attach it to your instance.

-- 
Thomas