Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:04:39 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: jflowers <jflowers@ezo.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future Message-ID: <CAHu1Y73UH07RaeDtea_-ujbguWwkC5bde8T0wQOcpUJivjMo7Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130410170001.M48286@ezo.net> References: <20130410170001.M48286@ezo.net>
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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@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@ezo.net> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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