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

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Dienstag, 3. Mai 2022 05:42:03 CEST Bin Meng wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:41 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +Mark
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:27 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > At present there is no Windows support for 9p file system.
> > > This series adds initial Windows support for 9p file system.
> > > 
> > > 'local' file system backend driver is supported on Windows,
> > > including open, read, write, close, rename, remove, etc.
> > > All security models are supported. The mapped (mapped-xattr)
> > > security model is implemented using NTFS Alternate Data Stream
> > > (ADS) so the 9p export path shall be on an NTFS partition.
> > > 
> > > 'synth' backend driver is updated only to build sucessuflly
> > > in a Windows build. Funtionalities are not tested as test
> > > cases do not run on Windows at present.

Like I mentioned in the previous RFC version; I don't really see a show 
stopper for the tests to run on Windows:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/4649965.RNUEIdHhq1@silver/

> > > 
> > > Example command line to test:
> > >   "-fsdev local,path=c:\msys64,security_model=mapped,id=p9 -device
> > >   virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=p9,mount_tag=p9fs"
> Any comments to v1 before we send a v2 which will be rebased on master?
> 
> Regards,
> Bin