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Is the use-case here really related to that of block storage? I imagine a given pool of blocks is reserved for one of VM at a time. I wouldn't want to share th
by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Is the use-case here really related to that of block storage?
I imagine a given pool of blocks is reserved for one of VM at a time. I wouldn't want to share the storage live between two VMs unless it was being accessed by some application specifically designed to hit a shared block store.
The point of something like virtio-fs would be to allow multiple VMs to share a file tree. It is a compromise between bind mounds (which are simpler, but only work for containers) and network filesystems (which work remotely, but are less efficient and well behaved).
- tinus_hn 8y agoThe point is to avoid the overhead of the hypervisor emulating a network and network device and the VM operating them.