From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0ZYT-0004Y1-OJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:12:53 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45354 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0ZYS-0004Xe-BC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:12:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0ZYR-0000oe-7C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:12:52 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:44526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0ZYR-0000oV-1A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:12:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:12:47 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support. Message-ID: <20100410121247.GA18080@shareable.org> References: <20100409212212.GB31666@shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mohammed Gamal Cc: Anthony Liguori , Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel , Javier Guerra Giraldez 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