RE: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse

[Shahar Frank]

> From: address@hidden [mailto:qemu-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Jamie
Lokier
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:59 PM
> To: Daniel P. Berrange; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse
> 
> 
> > Well qemu-nbd also allows sharing to remote machines, whereas fuse
> > only exposes it locally. qemu-nbd also allows access to things which
> > aren't filesystems. eg, you could have LVM / software RAID devices
> > inside your qcow file - qemu-fuse won't help you get access to
those.
> 
> Yes, qemu-nbd lets you use all the kernel filesystems, different
> partition formats, RAID, encryption etc.
> 
> -- Jamie
> 

If qemu-nbd is covering all useful use cases than qemu-fuse is obsolete.
In fact I wouldn't have developed it if I had qemu-nbd when I wrote it.
I sent it because it was useful for me and I enjoyed using fuse (my
first fuse server....).

I find qemu-ndb to be small, smart and elegant. In fact I once
considered to develop a remoting method based on RPC - to remote qemu
image level verbs. I wonder if qemu-ndb is good enough for remoting or
there is still use cases (or performance considerations) that would
justify RPC level (SUN's or other) remoting. What you do think?

Shahar