Re: [atomic-devel] Interesting upstream docker contribution opportunity related to remote host volume mounts

[Vincent Batts <vbatts redhat com>]

FYI: From a conversation last night, there was more progress on this fuse approach.
https://botbot.me/freenode/docker-dev/msg/18162987/


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clayton Coleman" <ccoleman redhat com>
> To: "Dan Mace" <dmace redhat com>
> Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:53:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Interesting upstream docker contribution opportunity related	to	remote host volume mounts
> 
> This is an interesting capability for local development on docker - giving
> developers who want to develop on windows a way to push to Linux.  That's
> pretty important in a lot of Java shops.
> 
> > On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Dan Mace <dmace redhat com> wrote:
> > 
> > There's an open docker issue to support host mounted volumes in a remote
> > container[1]. This would allow docker clients on any platform to use host
> > volumes even if the Docker daemon is running remotely in a virtual machine
> > (e.g. OSX, Windows). I think this feature is critical to a seamless local
> > docker development experience. Right now the only usable way to achieve
> > such mounting transparency in OSX and Windows is a boot2docker patch which
> > relies on VirtualBox guest additions. If docker supported transparent
> > remote host mounts out of the box, our source-to-images toolset would be
> > much more compelling for local development on all platforms.
> > 
> > Brad Fitzpatrick and Brandon Philips have been working on implementing a
> > FUSE based solution[2] to this problem which looks extremely promising. If
> > there's anybody on the team who is familiar with FUSE (or any) filesystem
> > drivers and who has an interest in writing docker graph drivers, here's a
> > cool opportunity to contribute to a very important user-facing docker
> > feature which also dovetails nicely with our goals for the
> > source-to-images project.
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/4023
> > [2] https://github.com/bradfitz/docker/compare/fuse
> > 
> > --
> > Dan Mace
> > OpenShift, PaaS by Red Hat
> > 
> 
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