[Virtio-fs] Kudos: productivity boost using virtio-fs

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Harry G. Coin (hgcoin at gmail.com) wrote:
> Though it's likely been written before:
> 
> Virtio-fs is a wonderful productivity boost in development environments
> in which unrelated deadlocks, crashes and hard-lockups happen.   Why? 
> Because the underlying file system is never corrupted (though individual
> file contents may be, the file system itself is protected).   For
> example, using btrfs' snapshot ability in the underlying file system and
> comparing 'before and after' crashes creates a powerful debugging tool.

Thanks!

I'm curious, can you describe a bit more about how you're using it with
btrfs - I don't think we've had anyone describe that before.
(We mostly use it with overlayfs via the various container tools).

Dave

> I suspect most folks involved in virtio-fs know this, but it's worth
> putting in the record for new folks.
> 
> Harry
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