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Those notes are helpful, thanks.

Were the freebsd and container cases from this ancient thread discussed as
well?

Michael





On 9 Jun 2017 2:25 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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