On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 05:47:14PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> > > There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people > do new work on that. > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > index 47a594a3b6..3c73d22729 100644 > --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst > +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > @@ -454,3 +454,20 @@ nanoMIPS ISA > > The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain. > As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated. > + > +Tools > +----- > + > +virtiofsd > +''''''''' > + > +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at > +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``; > +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that > +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree. > +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that > +are already in development for the moment, but will eventually > +be deleted from this tree. > +New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems > +should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set > +is very close and moving should be simple.
I'm not qualified to say if the Rust impl is complete enough to replace the C version, so I won't add a reviewed tag. However I want to say that from the point of view of downstream packagers of qemu -- especially Fedora -- it would be helpful if we could direct both upstream development effort and downstream packaging into just the one virtiofsd. So I agree in principle with this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
