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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:02:52 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>, freebsd-virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vtfs?
Message-ID:  <fd01ac98-9d4f-d8a5-2f2a-6b5d7bf47681@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5AE69FB7.1010706@redbarn.org>
References:  <5AE69FB7.1010706@redbarn.org>

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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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