[sandGorgon]

this is frikking awesome! do you have any of the lvm and pipe scripts publicly available ? i'm kinda struggling with building and setting up lvm on ec2 automatically and was wondering if there is any tidbits you can pass along.

[sam_pointer]

Unfortunately not. That company and codebase is very much dead, and I don't own any of it. Even if I did it would be a bunch of context-less shell (in the first iteration) and then a bunch of context-less Chef (in the second platform iteration).

Things I do remember:

- We used ephemeral volumes for all data stores. This was pre-provisioned IOPs and EBS was flaky as heck back then. I can't remember the disk layout, although we did experiment a great deal.

- We took great pains to ensure there was enough space to make the snapshot (IIRC is was a telemetry/monitoring item)

- The pipe scripts were essentially "netcat".

The best I can offer is this talk: http://vimeo.com/57861199