Re: [geclipse-dev] FW: Adding EBS

[Mathias Stümpert <mathias@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Harald,

> As far as I understand the situtation with EBS yet, there is no 
> opportunity to browse the content of the EBS "Block device" 
> independently from a running instance. Mina will look at this in the 
> next weeks. But if there is no way to "browse" the EBS content, the 
> integration of a EBS-EFS-implementation is out of scope.

The more interesting thing is if there even is a use-case for browsing 
the EBS content from the client-side?! As far as I understand EBS it is 
meant to be a block device ready to be attached to a running EC2 
instance. It is like a harddrive connected to a running machine. So here 
are my thoughts:

1) Normally I do not want to have my harddrive attached to more than one 
machine, regardless from if the machine is local or remote, server or 
client side.

2) If I would like to have access to parts of my harddrive (databases, 
remote mounts, etc.) from the client side I am providing suitable 
services on my server side giving such access (like samba, database 
connections etc.), but never ever I would like to give full access to 
the client side.

So for a client like g-Eclipse I rather see use-cases like

1. Create/Delete an EBS volume
2. Attach/Detach a volume to a running instance
3. Create snapshots of the volume
4. Share these snapshots

Cheers, Mathias