Re: [Xen-users] flat file system as disk

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] flat file system as disk
From:	Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:39:41 -0500
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Javier Guerra wrote:
> if you want 'more intelligent' hardware, or imagine a high level driver that 
> deals with files, pretty soon you've reinvented NFS/CIFS/whatever.

of course, that's not a totally bad idea... here's a proposal about using 
Plan9's distributed filesystem just for this:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/4/41/KvmForum2008$kdf2008_16.pdf

i don't know if there has been any more work on this

-- 
Javier

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