X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffilesystems%2Ffuse.txt;h=397a41adb4c3f0ab93a0fe1718105ab2c5bba61c;hb=a969e903a944f69309ee5cc9e7c7b08310d1151e;hp=a584f05403a412e778cf359e84d3690d5a22d1e4;hpb=ae3e0218621db0590163b2d5c424ef1f340e3cc6;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index a584f05403a..397a41adb4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt @@ -51,6 +51,22 @@ homepage: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ +Filesystem type +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The filesystem type given to mount(2) can be one of the following: + +'fuse' + + This is the usual way to mount a FUSE filesystem. The first + argument of the mount system call may contain an arbitrary string, + which is not interpreted by the kernel. + +'fuseblk' + + The filesystem is block device based. The first argument of the + mount system call is interpreted as the name of the device. + Mount options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -78,8 +94,8 @@ Mount options filesystem is free to implement it's access policy or leave it to the underlying file access mechanism (e.g. in case of network filesystems). This option enables permission checking, restricting - access based on file mode. This is option is usually useful - together with the 'allow_other' mount option. + access based on file mode. It is usually useful together with the + 'allow_other' mount option. 'allow_other' @@ -94,6 +110,11 @@ Mount options The default is infinite. Note that the size of read requests is limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386). +'blksize=N' + + Set the block size for the filesystem. The default is 512. This + option is only valid for 'fuseblk' type mounts. + Control filesystem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -111,7 +132,7 @@ For each connection the following files exist within this directory: 'waiting' - The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to + The number of requests which are waiting to be transferred to userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the filesystem is hung or deadlocked. @@ -136,7 +157,7 @@ following will happen: 2) If the request is not yet sent to userspace AND the signal is not fatal, then an 'interrupted' flag is set for the request. When - the request has been successfully transfered to userspace and + the request has been successfully transferred to userspace and this flag is set, an INTERRUPT request is queued. 3) If the request is already sent to userspace, then an INTERRUPT