Hi Nick, I had hoped that the mount would happen as a result of the fstab entry, but I suppose a script would be a relatively simple solution.
Would you trigger this script on 'host up'? Thanks Damon On Sep 4, 1:22 pm, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote: > Damon, > > You mount filesystems from your scripts, correct? > > Why not to check mountpoint exists and create this directory otherwise > within your script? > > If you will unmount the external filesystem, its mountpoint will be > included in the bundle. > > Its controlled by both Scalr scripts and Amazon AMI tools. > > Nick > > 2009/9/4 damonjebb <[email protected]>: > > > > > This is a bad thing becasue it requires a synchronisation of the empty > > mount point prior to making other changes that will often require > > another synchronisation. When synchronisation and start up take > > around an hour on average this is a significant inconvenience. > > > Is this something that is controlled by the scalr feature set or > > Amazon? > > > Would I be right to think that unmounting the folder prior to > > synchronising would allow it to be included in the image bundle? > > > Thanks > > Damon > > > On Sep 4, 10:20 am, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Damon, > > >> Mounted filesystems are not included into image bundle as well as > >> their mountpoints. You should create them yourself before mount. > > >> Nick > > >> 2009/9/4 damonjebb <[email protected]>: > > >> > I'm not sure whether this is a scalr thing or amazon, but; I've > >> > noticed on several occasions that the synchronisation of mounted > >> > folders fails. To replicate... > > >> > 1) Create a new, empty folder as a mount point for NFS > >> > 2) export an NFS share from another role > >> > 3) mount the NFS share on the new empty folder. > >> > 4) synchronise the role with the mounted folder > > >> > On restarting the role that had mounted the share the folder created > >> > for the mount does not exist and has to be recerated before the mount > >> > can be completed. > > >> > Thanks > >> > Damon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
