Firecracker VFS fixes / improvements #7973
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Polish up VFS a bit so that we can experiment with using VFS instead of workspace ext4 images. This should help reduce the IO costs associated with
mke2fs
, but at the cost of higher file access latency during execution.log.Error
tolog.Fatal
in the init process when the VFS server crashes. (We currently only show fatal-level logs.)SendPrepareFilesystemRequest
. Instead, parse the fatal error from the VM logs and report it immediately. This fix involved some cleanup/refactoring to the VM startup code.FileSystemLayout
. This struct was missing the newoutput_paths
field, but since theoutput_files
andoutput_directories
aren't used anyway, we can just remove them.