infochimps/cluster_chef — Issue #87: Want EBS volumes attached without source snapshot
Author: temujin9
Created: 2011-12-20 18:24:47+00:00
State: open
Labels: version_3_cleanup

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.