One way to get a fast disk cache on an EC2 instance is to use an NVMe SSD or a local instance store. This article describes the steps to mount the NVMe SSD or instance store on your AWS EC2 instance and how to set it up as a disk cache for ObjectiveFS. If your EC2 instance has multiple instance stores, see this guide for how to use multiple instance stores for disk cache.
What you need: an EC2 instance with NVMe SSD or an instance store added (see how to add instance store to your EC2 instance)
SSH into your EC2 instance.
Use lsblk
to view the block devices attached to the instance.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk
|-xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
xvdca 202:16 0 4G 0 disk /media/ephemeral0
The example above shows the instance store block device xvdca
is already formatted and mounted on /media/ephemeral0
If the instance store volume is already mounted, please umount it.
$ sudo umount /media/ephemeral0
If the instance store is not formatted, you can format it with the following command (assuming the block device name is xvdca
).
$ mkfs.ext3 /dev/xvdca
For NVMe SSD:
$ mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscard /dev/nvme0n1
Create the disk cache directory for ObjectiveFS /var/cache/objectivefs
and mount the instance store.
$ mkdir /var/cache/objectivefs
$ mount /dev/xvdca /var/cache/objectivefs
Run df -h
and verify that the instance store directory is mounted correctly.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 7.8G 1.1G 6.6G 14% /
devtmpfs 1.9G 60K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvdca 3.9G 8.1M 3.7G 1% /var/cache/objectivefs
Your disk cache directory on the local instance store is now ready. See Disk Cache User Guide for configuration details. Please also remember to configure the disk cache to mount on boot.
last updated by ObjectiveFS staff, November 30, 2018
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