From patchwork Thu Sep 17 22:36:11 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Abhishek Kulkarni X-Patchwork-Id: 48414 X-Patchwork-Delegate: ericvh@gmail.com Received: from lists.sourceforge.net (lists.sourceforge.net [216.34.181.88]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8HMxfci002200 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:59:41 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com) by 235xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoPwk-00014D-P6; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:59:26 +0000 Received: from sfi-mx-3.v28.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.28.123] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by 235xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoPwj-000147-Ju for v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:59:25 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-qy0-f199.google.com ([209.85.221.199]) by 3b2kzd1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1MoPwe-0007xL-N7 for v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:59:25 +0000 Received: by qyk37 with SMTP id 37so523139qyk.11 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.62.233 with SMTP id y41mr909189qah.11.1253228355031; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (dhcp-cs-244-149.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.244.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm466435qwf.57.2009.09.17.15.59.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:59:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Abhishek Kulkarni To: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:36:11 -0600 Message-Id: <1253226971-20134-2-git-send-email-adkulkar@umail.iu.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3 In-Reply-To: <1253226971-20134-1-git-send-email-adkulkar@umail.iu.edu> References: <1253226971-20134-1-git-send-email-adkulkar@umail.iu.edu> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. _SUMMARY_ X-Headers-End: 1MoPwe-0007xL-N7 Subject: [V9fs-developer] [RESEND 2/2] 9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits X-BeenThere: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: v9fs-developer-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 6208f55..57e0b80 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -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 @@ -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 @@ -59,16 +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 @@ -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)