NAME¶
VM::EC2::BlockDevice::Mapping - Object describing an EC2 block device attached
to an instance
SYNOPSIS¶
use VM::EC2;
$ec2 = VM::EC2->new(...);
$instance = $ec2->describe_instances(-instance_id=>'i-123456');
my @devices = $instance->blockDeviceMapping;
for my $dev (@devices) {
$dev = $dev->deviceName;
$volume_id = $dev->volumeId;
$status = $dev->status;
$atime = $dev->attachmentTime;
$delete = $dev->deleteOnTermination;
$volume = $dev->volume;
}
DESCRIPTION¶
This object represents an Amazon block device associated with an instance; it is
returned by Instance->
blockDeviceMapping().
Please see VM::EC2::Generic for methods shared by all VM::EC2 objects.
METHODS¶
These object methods are supported:
deviceName -- Name of the device, such as /dev/sda1.
instance -- Instance object associated with this volume.
ebs -- A VM::EC2::BlockDevice::Mapping::EBS object
describing the characteristics of the attached
EBS volume
For your convenience, a number of the
ebs() object's methods are passed
through:
volumeId -- ID of the volume.
status -- One of "attaching", "attached", "detaching", "detached"
attachTime -- Time this volume was attached
deleteOnTermination -- Whether the volume will be deleted when its attached
instance is deleted. Note that this will return perl true/false
vales, rather than the strings "true" "false".
The
deleteOnTermination() method can be used to retrieve or modify this
flag:
# get current deleteOnTermination flag
my $current_flag = $dev->deleteOnTermination;
# if flag is true, then set it to false
if ($current_flag) { $dev->deleteOnTermination(0) }
In addition, the following convenience function is provided:
$volume = $dev->volume¶
This returns a VM::EC2::Volume object from which more information about the
volume, such as its size, can be derived.
STRING OVERLOADING¶
When used in a string context, this object will be interpolated as the
deviceName.
SEE ALSO¶
VM::EC2 VM::EC2::Generic VM::EC2::BlockDevice VM::EC2::BlockDevice::Attachment
VM::EC2::BlockDevice::Mapping::EBS VM::EC2::Volume
AUTHOR¶
Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com>.
Copyright (c) 2011 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1,
or at your option, any later version) or the Artistic License 2.0. Refer to
LICENSE for the full license text. In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for
disclaimers of warranty.