Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Drop support for C implementation of virtiofsd
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 12:50:52 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Virtiofsd has two implementations: C and Rust. The former is now
deprecated (QEMU commit v7.0.0-rc0~52^2~1) and in fact removed
from QEMU (QEMU commit v8.0.0-rc0~55). While Rust version was
originally a drop in replacement it is not the case anymore. Some
arguments are silently ignored (like file locking) and there's no
way to make them work for both implementations.
Remove support for the C implementation.
Note that the virtiofs support in qemu seems to start dating from
qemu-5.0 thus was already availabile at least in RHEL/CentOS 8
Now the rust version:
https://repology.org/project/virtiofsd/versions
is not available there.
Since according to our platform support policy we're still about to
support rhel-8 for another ~7 months I'm not sure we should be doing
this. At least not with any form of proper justification, that this
commit message is not providing.