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Commit 3694b91a authored by Suresh Jayaraman's avatar Suresh Jayaraman Committed by Steve French
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cifs: update README to include details about 'fsc' option

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@@ -301,6 +301,16 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
  gid		Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
  file_mode     If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
		this overrides the default mode for file inodes.
  fsc		Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache (off by default). This
  		option could be useful to improve performance on a slow link,
		heavily loaded server and/or network where reading from the
		disk is faster than reading from the server (over the network).
		This could also impact scalability positively as the
		number of calls to the server are reduced. However, local
		caching is not suitable for all workloads for e.g. read-once
		type workloads. So, you need to consider carefully your
		workload/scenario before using this option. Currently, local
		disk caching is functional for CIFS files opened as read-only.
  dir_mode      If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server 
		this overrides the default mode for directory inodes.
  port		attempt to contact the server on this tcp port, before