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On 6/7/2017 10:20 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Greetings from an ancient thread (but the most recent on to 
> openstack-dev about localfs that I can find).
> 
> In 2014, which were heady times, we decided that we couldn't deprecate 
> nova.virt.disk.vfs.localfs because we theorised that FreeBSD and 
> containers would soon need it. Oh, and xenapi uses it a little too.
> 
> It is now three years later, and there has been some recent thought 
> given to deprecating localfs again, which I bumped into when I chose 
> this code as the first candidate for a prototype privsep user inside the 
> nova codebase [1].
> 
> I think we therefore need to have this conversation again. Do we still 
> have any clear use cases for localfs? Where does guestfs not run at the 
> moment? Or did I waste my time privsep'ing localfs?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 1: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/459166/

We agreed at the Pike PTG to drop the VFSLocalFS driver. See the recap 
notes from the PTG:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-March/113171.html

I think it's just a matter of cleaning this up:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/324720/

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Thanks,

Matt