Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11.09.2019 17:06, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 11.09.19 17:01, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 11.09.2019 15:01, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> And with the idea to "mount" it in the dom0 kernel's sysfs I think
>>> xensysfs (or xenhypfs?) seems appropriate.
>>
>> Well, such "mounting" is going to be indirect, I would assume?
>> I.e. not directly forward filesystem like requests as such to
>> Xen?
> 
> For plain entries (reads and eventually writes) I surely would just
> forward them. In case this is possible for directories, too, I'd rather
> do no caching in the kernel, so forwarding them would seem to be
> appropriate (rejecting anything but reading a directory, of course).

But that's still a kernel based file system, simply taking its
data from Xen. It's not like file system requests as such would
be forwarded.

Jan

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