From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: "Harry G. Coin" <hgcoin@gmail.com>
Cc: virtio-fs@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Virtio-fs] Kudos: productivity boost using virtio-fs
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001135129.GG2807@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfa0dbea-7046-0852-60c6-39bc24f24314@gmail.com>
* Harry G. Coin (hgcoin@gmail.com) wrote:
> Though it's likely been written before:
>
> Virtio-fs is a wonderful productivity boost in development environments
> in which unrelated deadlocks, crashes and hard-lockups happen. Why?
> Because the underlying file system is never corrupted (though individual
> file contents may be, the file system itself is protected). For
> example, using btrfs' snapshot ability in the underlying file system and
> comparing 'before and after' crashes creates a powerful debugging tool.
Thanks!
I'm curious, can you describe a bit more about how you're using it with
btrfs - I don't think we've had anyone describe that before.
(We mostly use it with overlayfs via the various container tools).
Dave
> I suspect most folks involved in virtio-fs know this, but it's worth
> putting in the record for new folks.
>
> Harry
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-29 18:50 [Virtio-fs] [RFC PATCH] fuse: update attributes on read() only on timeout Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 18:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 19:58 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 19:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-30 4:35 ` [Virtio-fs] " Amir Goldstein
2020-09-30 4:35 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-09-30 6:40 ` [Virtio-fs] " Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-30 6:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-30 11:57 ` [Virtio-fs] " Amir Goldstein
2020-09-30 11:57 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-10-01 13:47 ` [Virtio-fs] Kudos: productivity boost using virtio-fs Harry G. Coin
2020-10-01 13:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2020-10-01 14:12 ` Harry G. Coin
2020-10-01 16:26 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-10-02 14:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-30 13:02 ` [Virtio-fs] [RFC PATCH] fuse: update attributes on read() only on timeout Vivek Goyal
2020-09-30 13:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-30 13:19 ` [Virtio-fs] " Amir Goldstein
2020-09-30 13:19 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-09-30 13:38 ` [Virtio-fs] " Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-30 13:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-30 9:03 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-30 9:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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