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| author | Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> | 2010-08-05 18:52:21 +0530 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2010-08-11 17:11:28 +0000 |
| commit | 3694b91a59c3bc784735574878d36652dfd623c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b322b8a21d0da31032a24886216f0d78cb7124d /fs/cifs | |
| parent | 5af568cbd55f60b5a1d174f621b273e4f585dc35 (diff) | |
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cifs: update README to include details about 'fsc' option
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index a7081eeeb85d..7099a526f775 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -301,6 +301,16 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above). file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server this overrides the default mode for file inodes. + fsc Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache (off by default). This + option could be useful to improve performance on a slow link, + heavily loaded server and/or network where reading from the + disk is faster than reading from the server (over the network). + This could also impact scalability positively as the + number of calls to the server are reduced. However, local + caching is not suitable for all workloads for e.g. read-once + type workloads. So, you need to consider carefully your + workload/scenario before using this option. Currently, local + disk caching is functional for CIFS files opened as read-only. dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server this overrides the default mode for directory inodes. port attempt to contact the server on this tcp port, before |