[Virtio-fs] One virtiofs daemon per exported dir requirement

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Vivek Goyal (vgoyal at redhat.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dan Walsh and Mrunal mentioned that one virtiofsd daemon per exported
> directory requirement sounds excessive. For container use case, they have
> atleast 2-3 more directories they need to export (secrets and /etc/host). And
> that means 3-4 virtiofsd running for each kata container. 
> 
> One option seems that bind mount all exports in one directory and export
> that directory using one virtiofsd. I am aware of atleast one problem
> with that configuraiton and that is possibility of inode number collision
> if bind mounts are coming from different devices. Not sure how many
> applications care though. Sergio is looking into solving this issue. It
> might take a while though.

I thought the bind mount setup was the normal setup seen under both Kata
and k8s?

Dave

> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK