What matters are that the tests are valid, reproducible and not too slow. If you want to replace the filesystem and it improves any of these qualities I don't see any problems :)
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, 23:37 Ertugrul Söylemez, <e...@posteo.de> wrote: > > 9P is used by NixOS to share host's nix store with Qemu virtual > > machines. Such technique is used in the build process, in the > > test-driver, so to say in the critical places. > > Recently few bugs in 9P were found (#23957 #23020 #22695) which > > reveals that 9P code is not very mature and perhaps NixOS is the first > > team which uses 9P heavily and relies on it in production. > > > > Shouldn't we replace 9P with something battle-tested like NFS or > > Samba? It may also improve the performance because 9P server works in > > qemu process, in user mode and there are as many servers as virtual > > machines running. > > In terms of performance getting rid of QEMU where possible is probably > the better option. Containers are fairly mature these days, and then > sharing file-systems is a matter of bind-mounting. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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