Force detaching stuck EBS volumes
Once in a while, EBS volumes seem to get stuck in the 'detaching' state. Even after the attached instance has shutdown and gone away, the volume will continue to think that it is still 'detaching'. This seems to happen most often when the underlying instance fails or becomes unreachable. In these cases, doing a normal detach does not help, and usually the only way is to try and force the volume to detach. We just added the ability to do this inside the Ylastic GUI from the volumes page. This is to be only used as a last resort if your volume just will not finish detaching, as this can cause data loss or file system corruption.
