Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines3

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, miklos@szeredi.hu,
	sweil@redhat.com, swhiteho@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines3
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:53:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181211125342.GA21137@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181210173151.16629-1-dgilbert@redhat.com>

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 05:31:44PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
>   This is the first RFC for the QEMU side of 'virtio-fs';
> a new mechanism for mounting host directories into the guest
> in a fast, consistent and secure manner.  Our primary use
> case is kata containers, but it should be usable in other scenarios
> as well.
> 
> There are corresponding patches being posted to Linux kernel,
> libfuse and kata lists.
> 
> For a fuller design description, and benchmark numbers, please see
> Vivek's posting of the kernel set here:
> 
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154446243024251&w=2
> 
> We've got a small website with instructions on how to use it, here:
> 
> https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
> 
> and all the code is available on gitlab at:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs

A draft specification for the virtio-fs device is available here:

https://stefanha.github.io/virtio/virtio-fs.html#x1-38800010 (HTML)

https://github.com/stefanha/virtio/commit/e1cac3777ef03bc9c5c8ee91bcc6ba478272e6b6

Stefan

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