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------- Comment From utz.bacher@xxxxxxxxxx 2016-04-01 07:45 EDT-------
After some measurements, we think the penalty of a ramdisk (where these modules would reside on) is acceptable, when in turn we can keep the kernel itself small and minimal. So having 9pfs (with virtio and fs_cache) as a module is fine!

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Title:
  s390/kconfig: setting for CONFIG...9P....

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Heinz-Werner Seeck <heinz-werner_seeck@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2016-03-16 03:58:51 ==
  Reason:
  To allow using the host file system from within a KVM guest, in order to simplify management

  Following settings are required :
  CONFIG_NET_9P=y
  CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS_SECURITY=y

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