[cs615asa] Availability Zones of Volumes and Instances

[Tejas]

Thanks good point. It does clearly say in the error something like "volume is in different zone from instance…".


On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> Tejas <tnadkarn at stevens.edu> wrote:
>> Is it acceptable to just pick one zone for this HW and hard code it?
>> That's the least impacting to the user and guarantees you'll never
>> have a problem between volumes and instances? 
> 
> I'm afraid you don't quite have that luxury.  The user can give your
> tool an instance and a volume in different zones.  Now it's fine for
> your program to consider than an error condition and abort, but it would
> need to do so in a way that makes the cause of the error obvious to the
> user.
> 
> However: If the calls to the ec2 tools you're making happens to produce
> reasonably accurate error messages, then you may in fact be able to just
> ignore this edge condition.
> 
> -Jan
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