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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index bf8080640eb..fec7144e817 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -18,13 +18,15 @@ 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 + * VirtFS: A Virtualization Aware File System pass-through + http://goo.gl/3WPDg USAGE ===== @@ -37,6 +39,15 @@ 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 ======= @@ -47,7 +58,8 @@ 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 server may override or ignore this value. Certain user @@ -57,28 +69,43 @@ 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 + 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 - 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 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 - 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 @@ -90,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS This can be used to share devices/named pipes/sockets between hosts. This functionality will be expanded in later versions. - access there are three access modes. + access there are four access modes. user = if a user tries to access a file on v9fs filesystem for the first time, v9fs sends an attach command (Tattach) for that user. @@ -99,34 +126,32 @@ OPTIONS the files on the mounted filesystem any = v9fs does single attach and performs all operations as one user + client = ACL based access check on the 9p client + side for access validation + + 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 ========= -Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno) -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 CVS 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). -News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs). +News and other information is maintained on a 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 @@ -134,11 +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) - |