On Friday, August 8, 2025 12:27:15 PM CEST Dominique Martinet wrote: > Sorry for the delay... > > Tingmao Wang wrote on Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 09:43:01PM +0100: > > Unrelated to the above problem, it also seems like even with the revert in > > [2], because in cached mode inode are still reused based on qid (and type, > > version (aka mtime), etc), the setup mentioned in [2] still causes > > problems in th latest kernel with cache=loose: > > cache=loose is "you're on your own", I think it's fine to keep as is, > especially given qemu can handle it with multidevs=remap if required As of QEMU 10.0, multidevs=remap (i.e. remapping inodes from host to guest) is now the default behaviour, since inode collisions were constantly causing issues and confusion among 9p users. And yeah, cache=loose means 9p client is blind for whatever changes on 9p server side. /Christian
