Comment 5 for bug 485563

FWIW this is a lower-level Amazon issue with the Kernel version included in
some AMIs and XFS as a mounted EBS filesystem. We're going to have a better
set of recommendations soon.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Thomas Bonte <email address hidden> wrote:

> @Ranger what slightly different kernel are you having success with? With
> the Mercury 0.81 beta, we have had 3 froozen/killed instances so far,
> all with kernel Linux version 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen-ec2-v1.0. Before 0.81,
> we didn't encounter this problem.
>
> --
> Review EBS mount procedures
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485563
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> Developers, which is the registrant for PANTHEON Mercury.
>
> Status in Open-source system configuration for high-performance Drupal:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Currently there are some questions about the process used in creating EBS
> mounts. It's also unclear whether a server survives a reboot after an EBS
> has been mounted. This is possibly a known issue with EC2/EBS, but we should
> investigate.
>
> I just set up a server, mounted EBS, attempted a reboot, and found the
> instance to be unresponsive.
>
>
>

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