Srini, To ensure this is an ephemeral volume, fetch the following URL from the instance: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/block-device-mapping/ You'll see 'ephemeralX' entries there, which contain ephemeral block device names.
Regards, Nick On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 15:10, Srinivasan Subramanian < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Igor > > When I start instances I find that /mnt is mapped to ephemeral storage. > For eg in a m1.small instance, the /dev/sdb is of 160 GB and is mapped to > /mnt > > When I describe the image, I cannot see the instance storage mappings. > > The fact that the storage exists means: Either when the image was > registered, the instance storage was specified to be mounted or is being > done by Scalr when it starts the instance. > > Can you please check and confirm? Will be a big help to me as I can get > all my stuff on to /mnt then and get started! > > > Regards > Srini > > -----Original Message----- From: Igor Savchenko > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:58 PM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Are there any non-EBS Base or App roles available? > > On 28 February 2012 10:26, Srinivasan Subramanian > <srinivasan.subramanian@gmail.**com <[email protected]>> > wrote: > >> Hi Igor >> >> If I read you right, there are no instance storage backed AMIs from Scalr. >> Also the role builder will support only EBS backed. Net-net, I will have >> to >> use EBS backed instances only. Is my understanding correct? >> > > Correct. > >> >> However for temporary storage of data, I can in the instance mount the >> instance storage and put the files in there since they do not need to be >> persisted. >> > > Correct. > > >> >> Regards >> Srini >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Igor Savchenko >> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:41 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Are there any non-EBS Base or App roles available? >> >> All instances have ephemeral storage. Most likely you need to mount it. >> >> On EBS-based instances root FS / placed on EBS but you still can mount >> ephemeral storage. >> >> Regards, >> Igor >> >> On 28 February 2012 10:05, Srinivasan Subramanian >> <srinivasan.subramanian@gmail.**com <[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Igor >>> >>> I don’t need S3 based. I was looking at roles which do not have EBS but >>> instead use Instance Storage. Our App roles (bsaed on JBoss) do not need >>> EBS (no state) and I would be happy to use instance storage. >>> >>> Regards >>> Srini >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Igor Savchenko >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:03 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Are there any non-EBS Base or App roles available? >>> >>> >>> Scalr no longer provide non-ebs shared images and Role builder >>> supports only ebs-based ones. S3 images are very slow, also bundling >>> process is very unstable and can take hours. >>> >>> Can you please describe your case, why you need s3-based images? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Igor >>> >>> On 28 February 2012 07:24, Srinivasan Subramanian >>> <srinivasan.subramanian@gmail.**com <[email protected]>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I need non-EBS roles. In order to use role builder, wanted to start >>>> with >>>> an >>>> App image and then customize it to create the custom App image. I am >>>> unable >>>> to find any non-EBS roles. >>>> >>>> Any ideas where I can get some non-EBS backed Centos images? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Srini >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>>> scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<scalr-discuss%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<scalr-discuss%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> >>> . >>> -- >>> 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 >>> scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<scalr-discuss%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> >>> . >>> >>> >> -- >> 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 >> scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<scalr-discuss%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> >> . >> -- >> 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 >> scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<scalr-discuss%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> >> . >> >> > -- > 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 scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <scalr-discuss%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en>. > > -- > 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 scalr-discuss+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <scalr-discuss%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/scalr-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. 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