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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:12:47 +0100
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Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with
> interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows
> ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p,
> but I'm almost certain that CIFS would be more widely-supported.
> I am still a newbie as far as all this is concerned, so if anyone has
> any arguments as to whether which approach should be taken, I'd be
> enlightened to hear them.

To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across
operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-)

-- Jamie