Is it a good idea to have tomcat in a synced folder?

[xverges]

I've read that synced folders have its performance issues (specially on Virtual Box). From Vagrant: Up and Running:

Shared folders incur a heavy performance penalty within the virtual machine when there is heavy I/ O, so they should only be used for source files. Any compilation step, database files, and so on should be done outside the shared folder filesystem inside the guest filesystem itself.

It just called my attention seeing tomcat in my host drive, not that I have done any performance test having it outside of the Vagrant...

[janwirth]

I think, as an isolated dev environment it actually does not matter as long as it does not impair developer ergonomy.
Hovever, we should look for a solution to this issue when it actually occurs.