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Mounting disk that persists over rebuilds

  • Posted August 9, 2013

I’m looking to deploy servers by building images which I then use to create identical copies of servers. I also want to mount a separate disk that persists over rebuilding a server.

On EC2, I would do this by having an ephemeral root filesystem and an EBS volume mounted at /var/lib/mysql, for example.

But EBS is really slow. What would be brilliant is if I could in essence have two local disks – one which is the root filesystem and can be rebuilt from images, and another that persists over the reimage and can be mounted again in the same place.

See also: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html

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Kamal Nasser • August 10, 2013

The best way to get this done is to create a uservoice suggestion: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean <br> <br>If it gets enough votes, it might be considered on the roadmap :]