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| author | Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> | 2010-03-18 11:01:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> | 2010-04-05 19:37:36 +0400 |
| commit | 9208d24253e5e644f8cb1b87b69de44897668303 (patch) | |
| tree | 130092938941e26f32428497ce9335dcebeb367d /Documentation | |
| parent | 476ada0436351672fbf482db54cb94b8ba877709 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9208d24253e5e644f8cb1b87b69de44897668303.tar.xz | |
9p: documentation update
This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in
2.6.34.
Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 57e0b80a5274..c0236e753bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ 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 +56,7 @@ 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 @@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS 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 |