Add docs on how to improve performance by mixing synced folder types

[oxyc]

See #1242 (comment).

How's that? Or maybe under the synced folder section as it's more a feature than a performance improvement suggestion

[geerlingguy]

This placement seems appropriate to me.

[geerlingguy]

Going to do a little testing before merging, though (I trust you, but I want to see how much of an impact this could make for poor forlorn Windows non-10 devs.

[oxyc]

Don't merge just yet btw, I'll test this too and probably change this and the example above to use drupal-project structure drupal/web rather than drupal/public so it's easier for people to understand / copy-paste.

[oxyc]

So it didn't work :) It seems that since we updated the examples to use local_path: . the excluded_path examples have been incorrect. You cant reference a parent directory in the path.

[oxyc]

These are the rsync executions

rsync --verbose --archive --delete -z --chmod=ugo=rwX --no-owner --no-group \
--rsync-path ".........." \
--exclude ".vagrant/" \
--exclude "private" \
--exclude ".git" \
--exclude "web/sites/default/files" \
--exclude "tmp" \
--exclude "config/drupal" \
/Users/cindy/Projects/Personal/drupal-vm/ vagrant@127.0.0.1:/var/www/drupal

find /var/www/drupal \
-path /var/www/drupal/private -prune \
-o -path /var/www/drupal/.git -prune \
-o -path /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files -prune \
-o -path /var/www/drupal/tmp -prune \
-o -path /var/www/drupal/config/drupal -prune \
-o '!' -type l -a '(' ! -user vagrant -or ! -group vagrant ')' \
-exec chown vagrant:vagrant '{}'

[geerlingguy]

I'm also investigating doing reverse shared folders (e.g. sync folder from guest to host, using sshfs or other options).

[yareckon]

Sharing guest to host is great for php performance on large codebases. We do it for some vagrant projects. I would suggest samba / smb as a protocol since all hosts have passable clients for it.

The drawbacks are:

1. Not having access to the codebase when the VM is shut down (you can't check on something quick without waiting for it to boot)
2. All the compatibility, configuration and performance problems move to the IDE / text editor, which now has to not choke on the "remote" codebase, or use inappropriate features on it like SASS compilation or git management.

[geerlingguy]

@yareckon - Especially "performance problems move to the IDE / text editor" — global find-and-replace is an especially slow performer.

[geerlingguy]

@oxyc - I'm okay with merging this as-is, if the way it's currently written works.

Maybe we could also add a link to the article Drupal VM on Windows - a fast container for BLT project development, which has some recommendations around reverse-mounting a Samba share, or using SSH sync like with PhpStorm?

[oxyc]

I recall a discussion somewhere where you preferred this way of numbering markdown lists?

[geerlingguy]

Yeah; it's easier to update them without renumbering stuff. Good catch!