On Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2019 15:44:09 CEST Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > Unless I'm missing something, it seems that "virtio-fs" has the same > > > issue we had on 9pfs before Christian's patches... :-\ > > > > Is a fix for this desired for virtio-fs? > > Yes I think so; we had originally thought we were hiding the host inode > numbers; but that's not true - since we pass both a device and inode > number in virtiofs, unlike 9p, it seems we can probably get away with > only remapping device IDs rather than inode numbers; but that requires > some understanding of how multiple block device IDs are supposed to look > like to the guest kernel.
Postponed on my side then. My original idea was simply sharing the existing inode remapping code from 9p. But remapping/adding device ids on guest side like you suggested is cleaner; takes more time though to lookup the required kernel interfaces to achieve that. Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
