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I wonder what has happened with the VirtFS filesystem over virtio device. This presented a 9p interface directly in virtio to share filesystems between machines
by jws 7y ago
I wonder what has happened with the VirtFS filesystem over virtio device. This presented a 9p interface directly in virtio to share filesystems between machines. The only reference I see in the spec is the 0x1009 device id being allocated to the 9P transport.
- tjfontaine 7y agoI believe some of the thinking has shifted toward virtio-fs[1] instead of the 9p/network oriented models. Though this requires hypervisor locality for sharing among VMs. [1] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
- babkayaga 7y agoAt some level yes. But virtio 9pfs is still widely used. It's just that no one yet bothered writing up the spec.