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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index b22abba78fe..fec7144e817 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Other applications are described in the following papers: 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 + * VirtFS: A Virtualization Aware File System pass-through + http://goo.gl/3WPDg USAGE ===== @@ -67,10 +69,14 @@ OPTIONS offering several exported file systems. cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used. + none = default no cache policy, metadata and data + alike are synchronous. loose = no attempts are made at consistency, intended for exclusive, read-only mounts - fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only + fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only cache backend. + mmap = minimal cache that is only used for read-write + mmap. Northing else is cached, like cache=none debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. 0x01 = display verbose error messages @@ -90,7 +96,7 @@ OPTIONS wfdno=n the file descriptor for writing with trans=fd - maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9p packet payload (msize) + msize=n the number of bytes to use for 9p packet payload port=n port to connect to on the remote server @@ -130,34 +136,22 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/nferno/index.html) -as the 9p server. You can start a 9p server under Inferno by issuing the -following command: - ; styxlisten -A tcp!*!564 export '#U*' +Protocol specifications are maintained on github: +http://ericvh.github.com/9p-rfc/ -The -A specifies an unauthenticated export. The 564 is the port # (you may -have to choose a higher port number if running as a normal user). The '#U*' -specifies exporting the root of the Linux name space. You may specify a -subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export -/tmp. For more information, see the Inferno manual pages covering styxlisten -and export. +9p client and server implementations are listed on +http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations -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 SVN repository. +A 9p2000.L server is being developed by LLNL and can be found +at http://code.google.com/p/diod/ 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 a Wiki. +(http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php). -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) +Bug reports are best issued via the mailing list. For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 @@ -165,11 +159,3 @@ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9 - -STATUS -====== - -The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86. - -PLEASE USE THE KERNEL BUGZILLA TO REPORT PROBLEMS. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) - |