Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
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: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
  • Loading branch information
Abhishek Kulkarni authored and Eric Van Hensbergen committed Sep 23, 2009
1 parent 60e78d2 commit f4edeeb
Showing 1 changed file with 26 additions and 14 deletions.
40 changes: 26 additions & 14 deletions Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
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

Expand All @@ -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
Expand All @@ -59,16 +60,22 @@ 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
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

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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
=========

Expand All @@ -118,15 +129,16 @@ 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).

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)
Expand Down

0 comments on commit f4edeeb

Please sign in to comment.