On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:20:00 +0530 Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Document the newly added local caching feature using FS-Cache. This patch > could be queued and considered once the local caching patches gets merged > upstream. > > Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> > --- > doc/mount.cifs.8.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/mount.cifs.8.xml b/doc/mount.cifs.8.xml > index 4937550..2200746 100644 > --- a/doc/mount.cifs.8.xml > +++ b/doc/mount.cifs.8.xml > @@ -534,6 +534,23 @@ permissions in memory that can't be stored on the > server. This information can d > maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (fourteen > 4096 byte pages)</para></listitem> > </varlistentry> > + <varlistentry> > + <term>fsc</term> > + > + <listitem><para>Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache > + for cifs. 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 the > + scalability positively as the number of calls to the server > + are reduced. But, be warned that local caching is not suitable > + for all workloads, for e.g., read-once type workloads. So > + you need to consider carefully the situation/workload before > + using this option. > + NOTE: You also need to have cachefilesd daemon installed and > + running to make the cache operational. > + </para></listitem> > + </varlistentry> > <varlistentry> > <term>--verbose</term> > <listitem><para>Print additional debugging information for > the mount. Note that this parameter must be specified before the -o. For > example:</para><para>mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -o > user=username</para></listitem> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > merged -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
