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authorSripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>2010-03-18 04:01:33 -0400
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2010-04-05 11:37:36 -0400
commit9208d24253e5e644f8cb1b87b69de44897668303 (patch)
tree130092938941e26f32428497ce9335dcebeb367d /Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
parent476ada0436351672fbf482db54cb94b8ba877709 (diff)
9p: documentation update
This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in 2.6.34. Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
37 37
38 mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER 38 mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER
39 39
40For server running on QEMU host with virtio transport:
41
42 mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio <mount_tag> /mnt/9
43
44where mount_tag is the tag associated by the server to each of the exported
45mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an
46associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be
47seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.
48
40OPTIONS 49OPTIONS
41======= 50=======
42 51
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS
47 fd - used passed file descriptors for connection 56 fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
48 (see rfdno and wfdno) 57 (see rfdno and wfdno)
49 virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available 58 virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available
50 (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module) 59 (from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
51 rdma - connect to a specified RDMA channel 60 rdma - connect to a specified RDMA channel
52 61
53 uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The 62 uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
@@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS
85 94
86 port=n port to connect to on the remote server 95 port=n port to connect to on the remote server
87 96
88 noextend force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics) 97 noextend force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u or 9p2000.L semantics)
98
99 version=name Select 9P protocol version. Valid options are:
100 9p2000 - Legacy mode (same as noextend)
101 9p2000.u - Use 9P2000.u protocol
102 9p2000.L - Use 9P2000.L protocol
89 103
90 dfltuid attempt to mount as a particular uid 104 dfltuid attempt to mount as a particular uid
91 105