[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2] Deprecate C virtiofsd

Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) dgilbert at redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 17:47:14 UTC 2022


From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert at redhat.com>

There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
do new work on that.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 47a594a3b6..3c73d22729 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -454,3 +454,20 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
 
 The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
 As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+virtiofsd
+'''''''''
+
+There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at
+``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
+since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
+rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
+The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
+are already in development for the moment, but will eventually
+be deleted from this tree.
+New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems
+should consider moving to it.  The command line and feature set
+is very close and moving should be simple.
-- 
2.34.1




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