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Commit 9208d242 authored by Sripathi Kodi's avatar Sripathi Kodi Committed by Eric Van Hensbergen
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9p: documentation update 



This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in
2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
parent 476ada04

Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt

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@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9) 


	mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER



For server running on QEMU host with virtio transport:



	mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio <mount_tag> /mnt/9



where mount_tag is the tag associated by the server to each of the exported

mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an

associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be

seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.



OPTIONS

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@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS 
			fd   	- used passed file descriptors for connection

                                (see rfdno and wfdno)

			virtio	- connect to the next virtio channel available

				(from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)

				(from QEMU with trans_virtio module)

			rdma	- connect to a specified RDMA channel



  uname=name	user name to attempt mount as on the remote server.  The
@@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS 


  port=n	port to connect to on the remote server



  noextend	force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics)

  noextend	force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u or 9p2000.L semantics)



  version=name	Select 9P protocol version. Valid options are:

			9p2000          - Legacy mode (same as noextend)

			9p2000.u        - Use 9P2000.u protocol

			9p2000.L        - Use 9P2000.L protocol



  dfltuid	attempt to mount as a particular uid