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author | Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu> | 2009-09-22 12:34:04 -0400 |
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committer | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@strongmad.austin.ibm.com> | 2009-09-23 14:03:46 -0400 |
commit | f4edeeb3937d5f9953b5722f1cca9573d5ffe8a0 (patch) | |
tree | 573e88cb99da1b8fe926e0b5615c9e8d7dc4084e /Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | |
parent | 60e78d2c993e58d890596d951fff77d5965adcd6 (diff) |
9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
Update the documentation to describe FS-Cache related
caching parameters. This patch also updates the pointers
to 9p-related papers and adds pointer to the Wiki.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 6208f55c44c3..57e0b80a5274 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | |||
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper: | |||
18 | 18 | ||
19 | Other applications are described in the following papers: | 19 | Other applications are described in the following papers: |
20 | * XCPU & Clustering | 20 | * XCPU & Clustering |
21 | http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf | 21 | http://xcpu.org/papers/xcpu-talk.pdf |
22 | * KVMFS: control file system for KVM | 22 | * KVMFS: control file system for KVM |
23 | http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf | 23 | http://xcpu.org/papers/kvmfs.pdf |
24 | * CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE | 24 | * CellFS: A New Programming Model for the Cell BE |
25 | http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf | 25 | http://xcpu.org/papers/cellfs-talk.pdf |
26 | * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions | 26 | * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions |
27 | http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf | 27 | http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf |
28 | 28 | ||
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS | |||
48 | (see rfdno and wfdno) | 48 | (see rfdno and wfdno) |
49 | virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available | 49 | virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available |
50 | (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module) | 50 | (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module) |
51 | rdma - connect to a specified RDMA channel | ||
51 | 52 | ||
52 | uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The | 53 | uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The |
53 | server may override or ignore this value. Certain user | 54 | server may override or ignore this value. Certain user |
@@ -59,16 +60,22 @@ OPTIONS | |||
59 | cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used. | 60 | cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used. |
60 | loose = no attempts are made at consistency, | 61 | loose = no attempts are made at consistency, |
61 | intended for exclusive, read-only mounts | 62 | intended for exclusive, read-only mounts |
63 | fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only | ||
64 | cache backend. | ||
62 | 65 | ||
63 | debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. | 66 | debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. |
64 | 0x01 = display verbose error messages | 67 | 0x01 = display verbose error messages |
65 | 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT) | 68 | 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT) |
66 | 0x04 = display 9p trace | 69 | 0x04 = display 9p trace |
67 | 0x08 = display VFS trace | 70 | 0x08 = display VFS trace |
68 | 0x10 = display Marshalling debug | 71 | 0x10 = display Marshalling debug |
69 | 0x20 = display RPC debug | 72 | 0x20 = display RPC debug |
70 | 0x40 = display transport debug | 73 | 0x40 = display transport debug |
71 | 0x80 = display allocation debug | 74 | 0x80 = display allocation debug |
75 | 0x100 = display protocol message debug | ||
76 | 0x200 = display Fid debug | ||
77 | 0x400 = display packet debug | ||
78 | 0x800 = display fscache tracing debug | ||
72 | 79 | ||
73 | rfdno=n the file descriptor for reading with trans=fd | 80 | rfdno=n the file descriptor for reading with trans=fd |
74 | 81 | ||
@@ -100,6 +107,10 @@ OPTIONS | |||
100 | any = v9fs does single attach and performs all | 107 | any = v9fs does single attach and performs all |
101 | operations as one user | 108 | operations as one user |
102 | 109 | ||
110 | cachetag cache tag to use the specified persistent cache. | ||
111 | cache tags for existing cache sessions can be listed at | ||
112 | /sys/fs/9p/caches. (applies only to cache=fscache) | ||
113 | |||
103 | RESOURCES | 114 | RESOURCES |
104 | ========= | 115 | ========= |
105 | 116 | ||
@@ -118,7 +129,7 @@ and export. | |||
118 | A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project | 129 | A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project |
119 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently | 130 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently |
120 | maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) | 131 | maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) |
121 | available from the same CVS repository. | 132 | available from the same SVN repository. |
122 | 133 | ||
123 | There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project | 134 | There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project |
124 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). | 135 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). |
@@ -126,7 +137,8 @@ on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). | |||
126 | A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel) | 137 | A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel) |
127 | is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master) | 138 | is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master) |
128 | 139 | ||
129 | News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs). | 140 | News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs) |
141 | and the Wiki (http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php). | ||
130 | 142 | ||
131 | Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla | 143 | Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla |
132 | (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) | 144 | (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) |