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From: Lexi Winter <lexi@hemlock.eden.le-fay.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
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Subject: Re: p9fs (bhyve) success report
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Bakul Shah:
> On Nov 7, 2024, at 12:31=E2=80=AFPM, Lexi Winter =
> <lexi@hemlock.eden.le-fay.org> wrote:
> > as this has come up before here (and didn't make it into the quarterly =
> status
> > report), i just wanted to mention that i'm currently using p9fs(5) in =
> -current
> > to export a filesystem from the host to a bhyve VM and, after some =
> fixes made
> > in October, it's been rock solid for me.

> How is the performance compared to nfs?=

i haven't done any specific performance testing.  for the workload i'm
interested in (which is mostly 50MB/s or less of largely random i/o) i
haven't noticed any issues, though.