Comment 14 for bug 1336794

hi greg,

thanks very much for you answer. i saw the proposed kernel patch from eric van hensbergen - even tried to build my own kernel with the patch applied, i was ready to run this on a custom kernel with a custom built qemu, but although the patch can be applied, there have been too many changes in the surrounding code for it to be able to work.
the idea of the 9p file sharing in qemu is really nice (and fast). i am (was) trying to use it as a persistent storage on a kubernetes cluster and it is much better than nfs (performance wise) locking works just dandy.
with 9p i thought i was golden, unfortunately no cigar.
since there are different parties involved (and to get something into the linux kernel requires - from what i have read - the patience of a buddhist monk) i think it will be very hard to get this picked up.
because of the time frame this will probably not be a solution for me, but i am nonetheless willing to invest some time to bringing this forward.
how is a good way to proceed? (sorry, this question might sound dumb, but despite being a software developer for most of my working life the ways of the open source community have never revealed themselves to me).

-alex