On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 03:58:49PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > FWIW, the current virtio-9p filesystem passthrough does not support > migration and still has found usage in a number of scenarios where > that limitation is not important. ClearContainers / libvirt sandbox > are two which use 9p and don't care about migration. With this in mind, > NFS-over-VSOCK would still be valuable even if the specification > explicitly stated that live migration is not permitted. > > If there was a specified way of supporting live migration with good > semantics of the guest FS, then that would open up NFS-over-VSOCK to > a wider range of use cases. Migration would likely be quite important > to OpenStack usage, since live migration is the way cloud providers > typically upgrade virt hosts to newer releases of OpenStack software. Exactly what I was curious about, thanks! --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
