It isn't if you’re more interested in better performance during runtime. I can tolerate a certain delay when my IDE writes to a file on the host but I need the

It isn't if you’re more interested in better performance during runtime. I can tolerate a certain delay when my IDE writes to a file on the host but I need the best performance when my app is running. Edit: the point here is about shifting the area of compromise. I would very much prefer to compromise on IO performance when writing/reading files with my IDE rather than sacrifice the web server performance on the guest.