Comment by indigodaddy
5 days ago
Your write-up made me think of:
https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-s...
Are there parallels?
5 days ago
Your write-up made me think of:
https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-s...
Are there parallels?
I think this is very similar! Really cool to see.
The first version we launched used the exact same approach (MAP_PRIVATE). Later on, we bypassed the file system by using shared memory and using userfaultfd because ultimately the NVMe became the bottleneck (https://codesandbox.io/blog/cloning-microvms-using-userfault... and https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-scale-our-microvm-infrast...).
Glad to see the approach validated at scale! I hadn't seen your blog posts until they were linked here, going to dig into the userfaultfd path. Would love to chat if you're open to it.