A big step for virtio-fs! Jun
On 2019/8/20 0:04, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > I am delighted to announce the release of virtio-fs v0.3, a shared file > system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host. > This release is based on QEMU 4.1.0 and Linux 5.3-rc3. > > For more information about virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ > > This is a development release aimed at early adopters of virtio-fs. Work is > being done to upstream the code into Linux and QEMU. We expect to stop > publishing virtio-fs releases once the code has been merged by these upstream > projects. > > Where to get it: > > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/linux/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3 > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3 > > Changes: > > * Please note that the mount syntax has changed to: > > # mount -t virtio_fs myfs /mnt -o ... > > The old syntax was "mount -t virtio_fs none /mnt -o tag=myfs,...". > > * virtiofsd --fd=FDNUM takes a listen socket file descriptor number. File > descriptor passing is an alternative way to manage the vhost-user UNIX > domain socket. The parent process no longer needs to wait for virtiofsd to > create the listen socket before spawning the VM. > > * virtiofsd --syslog logs to syslog(2) instead of stderr. Useful for > unifying > logging and when the virtiofsd process is not being supervised. > > * virtiofsd --thread-pool-size=NUM sets the maximum number of worker threads > for FUSE request processing. This can be used to control the host queue > depth. The default is 64. > > * Performance improvements and bug fixes. > > Note for Kata Containers: the new kernel is not compatible with existing > Kata Containers releases due to the mount syntax change. To try it out, > please apply the following kata-runtime patch: > > > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/runtime/commit/a2e44de817e438c02a495cf258039774527e3178 > > Kata Containers patches for virtio-fs v0.3 are under development and will be > submitted to Kata soon. > > Thanks to the following people for contributing code and to many more > for helping the virtio-fs effort: > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]> > Eric Ren <[email protected]> > Eryu Guan <[email protected]> > Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <[email protected]> > Jiufei Xue <[email protected]> > Liu Bo <[email protected]> > Masayoshi Mizuma <[email protected]> > Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> > Peng Tao <[email protected]> > piaojun <[email protected]> > Sebastien Boeuf <[email protected]> > Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> > Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> > Xiaoguang Wang <[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Virtio-fs mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs >
