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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:31:54PM +0000, Fotis Xenakis wrote:<br>
> OSv is a unikernel happily running on QEMU/KVM, supporting different filesystems. Virtio-fs is a great fit for unikernels: it offers an escape route from rebuilding images for every change and very competitive performance just to name a couple of factors.<br>
> I decided as part of my thesis to tackle read-only virtio-fs DAX window support on the OSv side (nothing big, no comparison to linux). This has been merged and works on OSv and I 've been working on evaluating it (spoiler: it works very nicely and performance
is pretty good).<br>
> Unfortunately, the thesis containing the detailed evaluation is mostly in Greek, in any case you can find it here
<a href="https://github.com/foxeng/diploma" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://github.com/foxeng/diploma</a>. When time allows, I will also do an English write-up for sharing. If anyone's interested, I 'll make sure to post it here too!<br>
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You are welcome to write a guest post on the QEMU blog<br>
(<a href="https://qemu.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://qemu.org/blog/</a>) that gives an overview of OSv and the virtio-fs<br>
device interface. I imagine people would be interested in learning about<br>
<div>both these topics.</div>
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The git repo for the QEMU website and blog is here:<br>
<a href="https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web</a><br>
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You can create a new blog post by dropping a Markdown file into _posts/.<br>
Images can be added to screenshots/ directory.<br>
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The blog post can be sent to the QEMU mailing list using<br>
git-send-email(1) with Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> CCed. Please also<br>
<div>CC virtio-fs@redhat.com and we'll review it.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much for the invite and the detailed instructions!</div>
<div>I 'd be very glad to do this and will go ahead upon first chance.</div>
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<div>Fotis</div>
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Stefan<br>
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