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| author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-06-24 18:30:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-06-24 18:30:48 +0000 |
| commit | 75865f8cc8b38c30c3923b74de4b29a00cc4c0e4 (patch) | |
| tree | ec4c6322e739362f4b666fbe0fccbb14c4baaaa7 /fs/cifs/README | |
| parent | 75154f402ef18e459ff97ddece25656b6c2b329c (diff) | |
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[CIFS] Add in some missing flags and cifs README and TODO corrections
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 4d01697722cc..eb3efd5a6a81 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -301,10 +301,21 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: during the local client kernel build will be used. If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is unused. - rsize default read size (usually 16K) - wsize default write size (usually 16K, 32K is often better over GigE) - maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (14 4096 byte - pages) + rsize default read size (usually 16K). The client currently + can not use rsize larger than CIFSMaxBufSize. CIFSMaxBufSize + defaults to 16K and may be changed (from 8K to the maximum + kmalloc size allowed by your kernel) at module install time + for cifs.ko. Setting CIFSMaxBufSize to a very large value + will cause cifs to use more memory and may reduce performance + in some cases. To use rsize greater than 127K (the original + cifs protocol maximum) also requires that the server support + a new Unix Capability flag (for very large read) which some + newer servers (e.g. Samba 3.0.26 or later) do. rsize can be + set from a minimum of 2048 to a maximum of 130048 (127K or + CIFSMaxBufSize, whichever is smaller) + wsize default write size (default 57344) + maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (fourteen + 4096 byte pages) rw mount the network share read-write (note that the server may still consider the share read-only) ro mount network share read-only @@ -582,10 +593,10 @@ the start of smb requests and responses can be enabled via: echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB -Two other experimental features are under development and to test -require enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL +Two other experimental features are under development. To test these +requires enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL - More efficient write operations + ipv6 enablement DNOTIFY fcntl: needed for support of directory change notification and perhaps later for file leases) |