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A FUSE filesystem for reflecting Amazon EC2 instance metadata (provided via HTTP) into the VFS.
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A FUSE filesystem for reflecting Amazon EC2 instance metadata (provided via HTTP) into the VFS. dependencies: FUSE/Python bindings ("python-fuse" or "fuse-python") usage: ec2mdfs [-o subtree=path] /mountpoint The subtree tells the filesystem what path under the EC2 metadata HTTP service should be reflected at the mountpoint. The subtree specifies an API version number, as well as allowing you to reflect only part of the metadata. The default is "/latest", which gives the following: $ ./ec2mdfs /ec2 $ ls -lF /ec2 total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2013-05-12 15:09 dynamic/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2013-05-12 15:09 meta-data/ You can isolate only the instance metadata with an alternate subtree: $ ./ec2mdfs -osubtree=/latest/meta-data /ec2 $ ls -F /ec2 ami-id instance-id metrics/ public-keys/ ami-launch-index instance-type network/ reservation-id ami-manifest-path kernel-id placement/ security-groups block-device-mapping/ local-hostname profile hostname local-ipv4 public-hostname instance-action mac public-ipv4 ec2msfs may be used as an alternative to calling out to `curl` for instance metadata. Here's a useful entry for /etc/fstab: ec2mdfs /ec2 fuse ro,allow_other 0 0 Or, same thing while mounting the metadata directory (disregarding dynamic data and userdata): ec2mdfs /ec2 fuse ro,allow_other,subtree=/latest/meta-data 0 0 If ec2mdfs is installed in /usr/bin, then "mount /ec2" will work, and automatic mounts at system startup will mount /ec2 as well. The allow_other option makes a FUSE filesystem accessible to users other than the FUSE daemon owner (in this case, root).
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