NFS alternatives (was: Re: Storage overhead on zvols)

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > Am 05.12.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>:
> > In effect what your asking for is what NFS does, so use NFS and get
> > over the fact that this is the way to get what you want.  Sure you
> > could implement a virt-vfs but I wonder how close the spec of that
> > would be to the spec of NFS.
>
> I figure it should be possible to implement something simpler
> than NFS that provides full local posix semantics under the
> constraint that only one "client" is allowed to mount the FS
> at a time.
>
> I see quite a few applications for something like this, specifically
> in "hyperconvergent" environments. Or vagrant, of course.
>
> *scratching head* isn't this what Sun's "network disk" protocol provided?
>
> Kind regards,
> Patrick


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-- 
Adam