vtfs?

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 30 05:03:05 UTC 2018


On 30/4/18 12:46 pm, Paul Vixie wrote:
> i use nfs for this but i don't like it.
>
> we have vtnet and vtbd. where is vtfs?
>
> as in, a vm-independent (virtualbox, vmware, bhyve, kvm, xen, etc) 
> standard that would let sysadmins export file systems through 
> something that might look to the guest a lot like vfs, but would be 
> implemented in the host a lot like nullfs (so, more like jails in 
> this way.)
>
I heard rumours someone is working on it but they are exactly that so 
far..  rumours.

> i realize that apple and microsoft clients would have hell to pay 
> with semantic incompatibilities like case-sensitive file names. but 
> i still want it, because i want mmap for high performance read-write 
> multi-vm applications, and nfs prohibits this.
>
> vixie
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