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| author | Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> | 2022-02-10 17:47:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2022-02-14 17:11:20 +0000 |
| commit | 34deee7b6a1418f3d62a91ff0a9d156e60a788a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f8d1901fb073502d63527daae8980cef657029e /docs | |
| parent | 7b223e38603de3a75602e14914d26f9d4baf52eb (diff) | |
Deprecate C virtiofsd
There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
do new work on that.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20220210174714.19843-1-dgilbert@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 25b1fb8677..26d00812ba 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -447,3 +447,20 @@ nanoMIPS ISA The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain. As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated. + +Tools +----- + +virtiofsd +''''''''' + +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``; +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree. +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that +are already in development for the moment, but will eventually +be deleted from this tree. +New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems +should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set +is very close and moving should be simple. |