For testing, we use 9fs. It's a handy way of getting information from our
virtual machines into out real-world file system.
I don't remember the details, but the future of 9fs in Red Hat products
seemed precarious. I think that it was not in RHEL 7.
This article suggests that Zen will use it.
On Wed, 17 May 2017, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
For testing, we use 9fs. It's a handy way of getting information from our
virtual machines into out real-world file system.
I don't remember the details, but the future of 9fs in Red Hat products
seemed precarious. I think that it was not in RHEL
Outside RHEL, the 9pfs support is gaining more support. EPEL kernel has 9fs
enabled. Ubuntu seems to support it now, and XEN now.
Eventually RHEL will support something like 9pfs + Windows support in secure
way! For 'security' reasons 9fs is not supported now.
The new RHEL blessed one seems Virt
