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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-06-24 14:30:48 -0400
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-06-24 14:30:48 -0400
commit75865f8cc8b38c30c3923b74de4b29a00cc4c0e4 (patch)
treeec4c6322e739362f4b666fbe0fccbb14c4baaaa7 /fs/cifs/README
parent75154f402ef18e459ff97ddece25656b6c2b329c (diff)
[CIFS] Add in some missing flags and cifs README and TODO corrections
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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@@ -301,10 +301,21 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
301 during the local client kernel build will be used. 301 during the local client kernel build will be used.
302 If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is 302 If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is
303 unused. 303 unused.
304 rsize default read size (usually 16K) 304 rsize default read size (usually 16K). The client currently
305 wsize default write size (usually 16K, 32K is often better over GigE) 305 can not use rsize larger than CIFSMaxBufSize. CIFSMaxBufSize
306 maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (14 4096 byte 306 defaults to 16K and may be changed (from 8K to the maximum
307 pages) 307 kmalloc size allowed by your kernel) at module install time
308 for cifs.ko. Setting CIFSMaxBufSize to a very large value
309 will cause cifs to use more memory and may reduce performance
310 in some cases. To use rsize greater than 127K (the original
311 cifs protocol maximum) also requires that the server support
312 a new Unix Capability flag (for very large read) which some
313 newer servers (e.g. Samba 3.0.26 or later) do. rsize can be
314 set from a minimum of 2048 to a maximum of 130048 (127K or
315 CIFSMaxBufSize, whichever is smaller)
316 wsize default write size (default 57344)
317 maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (fourteen
318 4096 byte pages)
308 rw mount the network share read-write (note that the 319 rw mount the network share read-write (note that the
309 server may still consider the share read-only) 320 server may still consider the share read-only)
310 ro mount network share read-only 321 ro mount network share read-only
@@ -582,10 +593,10 @@ the start of smb requests and responses can be enabled via:
582 593
583 echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB 594 echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB
584 595
585Two other experimental features are under development and to test 596Two other experimental features are under development. To test these
586require enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 597requires enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
587 598
588 More efficient write operations 599 ipv6 enablement
589 600
590 DNOTIFY fcntl: needed for support of directory change 601 DNOTIFY fcntl: needed for support of directory change
591 notification and perhaps later for file leases) 602 notification and perhaps later for file leases)