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author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-06-24 14:30:48 -0400 |
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committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-06-24 14:30:48 -0400 |
commit | 75865f8cc8b38c30c3923b74de4b29a00cc4c0e4 (patch) | |
tree | ec4c6322e739362f4b666fbe0fccbb14c4baaaa7 /fs/cifs/README | |
parent | 75154f402ef18e459ff97ddece25656b6c2b329c (diff) |
[CIFS] Add in some missing flags and cifs README and TODO corrections
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/README')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/README | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 4d01697722cc..eb3efd5a6a81 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README | |||
@@ -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 | ||
585 | Two other experimental features are under development and to test | 596 | Two other experimental features are under development. To test these |
586 | require enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL | 597 | requires 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) |