Want EBS volumes attached without source snapshot

[temujin9]

The source snapshot capability is unnecessary for cases where the volume in question is just a formatted but empty drive. facet.volume can already attach a non-snapshot volume to a machine; it just needs to know how to format it before it mounts it. A flag like "format 'xfs'" should be used to designate this, and there should be sufficient guards in the code to prevent any accidental reformatting of existing volumes.

[temujin9]

Postponed: not essential, current solutions are functional if pessimal.

[temujin9]

@mrflip In the burndown you say: "can create ebs volumes at launch with no snapshot". How? The snapshot_name I see in use just links back to a growable snapshot.

[mrflip]

Currently we launch with a 1GB XFS
And resize, but you wanted to find out if there is a way to make a volume createAtLaunch with no snapshot.

Both the fog and AWS API would have to allow. This will be trivial to implement, just someone's gotta do the research.

On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Nathaniel Eliotreply@reply.github.com wrote:

@mrflip In the burndown you say: "can create ebs volumes at launch with no snapshot". How? The snapshot_name I see in use just links back to a growable snapshot.

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