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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
  9p: Add fscache support to 9p
  9p: Fix the incorrect update of inode size in v9fs_file_write()
  9p: Use the i_size_[read, write]() macros instead of using inode->i_size directly.
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Linus Torvalds committed Sep 23, 2009
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40 changes: 26 additions & 14 deletions Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
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Expand Up @@ -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
* CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE
http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf
http://xcpu.org/papers/kvmfs.pdf
* CellFS: A New Programming Model for the Cell BE
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

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(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
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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
0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT)
0x04 = display 9p trace
0x08 = display VFS trace
0x10 = display Marshalling debug
0x20 = display RPC debug
0x40 = display transport debug
0x80 = display allocation debug
0x01 = display verbose error messages
0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT)
0x04 = display 9p trace
0x08 = display VFS trace
0x10 = display Marshalling debug
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

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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
=========

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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).

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)
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Expand Up @@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ config 9P_FS
See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.

If unsure, say N.

config 9P_FSCACHE
bool "Enable 9P client caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
depends on 9P_FS=m && FSCACHE || 9P_FS=y && FSCACHE=y
help
Choose Y here to enable persistent, read-only local
caching support for 9p clients using FS-Cache

3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion fs/9p/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_9P_FS) := 9p.o
vfs_dir.o \
vfs_dentry.o \
v9fs.o \
fid.o \
fid.o

9p-$(CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE) += cache.o
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