ec2/fedora-18-i386-ec2.ks ec2/fedora-18-x86_64-ec2.ks

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 11 20:54:37 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > why fedora ec2-image doesn't have a swap ?
> The standard in EC2 is to use ephemeral storage for swap.
> Unfortunately, different instance types put their ephemeral storage in
> different places, and some have none at all, so I suggest using a
> script to manage swap space as the instance starts.  You can do this
> by uploading a script as the instance's user data:
> euca-run-instances ami-2ea50247 ... --user-data-file=some-shell-script.sh

Hmmm. Can we include that to make things nicer?

(I was just noticing that the kickstart puts /dev/xvda3 as swap in fstab on
i386 only, so we're already halfway trying to do something conditional.)

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