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authorEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2014-01-24 11:55:21 -0500
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2014-01-24 11:55:21 -0500
commitb871866e4aa3f44b10f0f0ce004cc4635c2e58a5 (patch)
tree49407c1bf0062d0c523432b1db8b76cd59eb913a
parentfb89b45cdfdc8bdab93986f1bc1474e313295c31 (diff)
9p: update documentation
quick pass to update the documentation to include instructions for the new cache=mmap mode as well as clean up some out-of-date bits. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt17
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index 2c0321442845..fec7144e817c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ OPTIONS
69 offering several exported file systems. 69 offering several exported file systems.
70 70
71 cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used. 71 cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used.
72 none = default no cache policy, metadata and data
73 alike are synchronous.
72 loose = no attempts are made at consistency, 74 loose = no attempts are made at consistency,
73 intended for exclusive, read-only mounts 75 intended for exclusive, read-only mounts
74 fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only 76 fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only
75 cache backend. 77 cache backend.
78 mmap = minimal cache that is only used for read-write
79 mmap. Northing else is cached, like cache=none
76 80
77 debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. 81 debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask.
78 0x01 = display verbose error messages 82 0x01 = display verbose error messages
@@ -147,8 +151,7 @@ on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
147News and other information is maintained on a Wiki. 151News and other information is maintained on a Wiki.
148(http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php). 152(http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php).
149 153
150Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla 154Bug reports are best issued via the mailing list.
151(http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
152 155
153For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out 156For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out
154http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 157http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
@@ -156,11 +159,3 @@ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
156For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries 159For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries
157ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9 160ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9
158 161
159
160STATUS
161======
162
163The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86.
164
165PLEASE USE THE KERNEL BUGZILLA TO REPORT PROBLEMS. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
166