[Swan-dev] future of 9fs

[Antony Antony]

Outside RHEL, the 9pfs support is gaining more support. EPEL kernel has 9fs enabled. Ubuntu seems to support it now, and XEN now.

Eventually RHEL will support something like 9pfs + Windows support in secure way! For 'security' reasons 9fs is not supported now.
The new RHEL blessed one seems Virtio Vsock. It is supported in libvirt/KVM upstream now. Vsock could be replacement for 9fs in F26.

https://vmsplice.net/~stefan/stefanha-connectathon-2016.pdf 

-antony




On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:05:51AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> For testing, we use 9fs.  It's a handy way of getting information from our 
> virtual machines into out real-world file system.
> 
> I don't remember the details, but the future of 9fs in Red Hat products 
> seemed precarious.  I think that it was not in RHEL 7.
> 
> This article suggests that Zen will use it.  Is this going to help us?
> Or is this just about using the protocol and not the code?
> <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xen-Linux-4.12-Changes>
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