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 <dgilb...@redhat.com> > Eric Ren <renz...@linux.alibaba.com> > Eryu Guan <eg...@linux.alibaba.com> > Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <ganesh.mahalin...@intel.com> > Jiufei Xue <jiufei....@linux.alibaba.com> > Liu Bo <bo....@linux.alibaba.com> > Masayoshi Mizuma <m.miz...@jp.fujitsu.com> > Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> > Peng Tao <tao.p...@linux.alibaba.com> > piaojun <piao...@huawei.com> > Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.bo...@intel.com> > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com> > Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.w...@linux.alibaba.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Virtio-fs mailing list > virtio...@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs >
