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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Para-virtualized ram-based filesystem?
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
>> On Saturday 16 April 2011 09:58:32 Ritchie, Stuart wrote:
>>> How does that sound?
>> As a general user: Confusing.
>>
>> Is there a concrete example (specific applications, specific performance=
 issues,
>> specific requirements) that you can share?
>
> I'm also wondering why you want this.
>
> Does it matter if the files get pushed out to swap on the host?
>
> It's tempting to take advantage of running virtualized but then things
> like migration get in the way. =A0Have you actually tried out network
> file systems and determined they won't work for some reason?
>
> Stefan
>