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Commit f4edeeb3 authored by Abhishek Kulkarni's avatar Abhishek Kulkarni Committed by Eric Van Hensbergen
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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: default avatarAbhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
parent 60e78d2c

Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt

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@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper: 


Other applications are described in the following papers:

	* XCPU & Clustering

		http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf

		http://xcpu.org/papers/xcpu-talk.pdf

	* KVMFS: control file system for KVM

		http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf

		http://xcpu.org/papers/kvmfs.pdf

	* CellFS: A New Programming Model for the Cell BE

		http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf

		http://xcpu.org/papers/cellfs-talk.pdf

	* PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions

		http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS 
                                (see rfdno and wfdno)

			virtio	- connect to the next virtio channel available

				(from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)

			rdma	- connect to a specified RDMA channel



  uname=name	user name to attempt mount as on the remote server.  The

  		server may override or ignore this value.  Certain user
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ OPTIONS 
  cache=mode	specifies a caching policy.  By default, no caches are used.

			loose = no attempts are made at consistency,

                                intended for exclusive, read-only mounts

			fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only

				cache backend.



  debug=n	specifies debug level.  The debug level is a bitmask.

			0x01  = display verbose error messages
@@ -69,6 +72,10 @@ OPTIONS 
			0x20  = display RPC debug

			0x40  = display transport debug

			0x80  = display allocation debug

			0x100 = display protocol message debug

			0x200 = display Fid debug

			0x400 = display packet debug

			0x800 = display fscache tracing debug



  rfdno=n	the file descriptor for reading with trans=fd
@@ -100,6 +107,10 @@ OPTIONS 
			any   = v9fs does single attach and performs all

				operations as one user



  cachetag	cache tag to use the specified persistent cache.

		cache tags for existing cache sessions can be listed at

		/sys/fs/9p/caches. (applies only to cache=fscache)



RESOURCES

=========
@@ -118,7 +129,7 @@ and export. 
A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project

on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).  The currently

maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs)

available from the same CVS repository.

available from the same SVN repository.



There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project

on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
@@ -126,7 +137,8 @@ on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). 
A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel)

is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master)



News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs).

News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs)

and the Wiki (http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php).



Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla 

(http://bugzilla.kernel.org)