<div style="min-height:22px;margin-bottom:8px;">Just ping Zklei, he responds that he will try to finish it at the weekend. </div><div style="min-height:22px;margin-bottom:8px;">I think you can feel free to pick up the PR after some days since it has been blocked for long time and Zklei can’t put much time on it.</div><div style="min-height:22px;margin-bottom:8px;">And I think the feature makes a lot of sense to me and I hope it can land finally:)</div><div id="original-content"><br><div><div style="font-size:70%;padding:2px 0;">------------------ Original ------------------</div><div style="font-size:70%;background:#f0f0f0;color:#212121;padding:8px;border-radius:4px"><div><b>From:</b> Ernst, Eric <eric.ernst@intel.com></div><div><b>Date:</b> Wed,Jun 12,2019 11:24 PM</div><div><b>To:</b> kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io <kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io></div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kata-dev] Feature: mounting block devices in the guest VM</div></div></div><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Virt-kats –<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve discussed this a few times, but haven’t been able to land any PRs. See the following (duplicate) issues that highlight feature request:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/571">https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/571</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/881">https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/881</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listening to folks using or seeking to use Kata in production, it seems this is a desired use case, and that we should be able to propose enabling as a non-default configurable option.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">See the following PR in agent/runtime from zklei:
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/882">https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/882</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/407">https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/407</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zklei dropped off face of Kata-earth, and I would like to see if we can:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">agree upon the feature definition and its addition, and<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">find someone to pick the implementation of this feature up. 
<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Feedback? Zhang Wei, anyone at Huawei still working on this feature?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<br>
Eric<o:p></o:p></p>
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