Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] 9pfs: Add 9pfs support for Windows host

[Bin Meng]

+Guohuai

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 8:27 PM Christian Schoenebeck
<qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:
>
> On Freitag, 8. April 2022 19:10:09 CEST Bin Meng wrote:
> > At present there is no Windows support for 9p file system.
> > This series adds initial Windows support for 9p file system.
>
> Nice!
>
> > Only 'local' file system driver backend is supported. security_model
> > should be 'none' due to limitations on Windows host.
>
> We have 3 fs drivers: local, synth, proxy. I don't mind about proxy, it is in
> bad shape and we will probably deprecate it in near future anyway. But it
> would be good to have support for the synth driver, because we are using it
> for running test cases and fuzzing tests (QA).
>
> What are the limitations against security_model=mapped on Windows? Keep in
> mind that with security_model=none you are very limited in what you can do
> with 9p.
>

Regards,
Bin