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Eric Van Hensbergen e03abc0c96 9p: implement optional loose read cache
While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its
place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is
exclusive and/or read-only.  The vacfs views of venti content addressable
store are a real-world instance of such a situation.  To facilitate higher
performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches),
we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain
any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache.  This results in over
two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads
in the Bonnie benchmark.  The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems
to improve metadata operational performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00

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00-INDEX
- this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux).
Exporting
- explanation of how to make filesystems exportable.
Locking
- info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS.
9p.txt
- 9p (v9fs) is an implementation of the Plan 9 remote fs protocol.
adfs.txt
- info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System.
afs.txt
- info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
affs.txt
- info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
automount-support.txt
- information about filesystem automount support.
befs.txt
- information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
bfs.txt
- info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
cifs.txt
- description of the CIFS filesystem.
coda.txt
- description of the CODA filesystem.
configfs/
- directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
cramfs.txt
- info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
dentry-locking.txt
- info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
directory-locking
- info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
dlmfs.txt
- info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
ext2.txt
- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
ext3.txt
- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
ext4.txt
- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
files.txt
- info on file management in the Linux kernel.
fuse.txt
- info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
hfs.txt
- info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
hpfs.txt
- info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
isofs.txt
- info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
jfs.txt
- info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
ncpfs.txt
- info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
ntfs.txt
- info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
ocfs2.txt
- info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
porting
- various information on filesystem porting.
proc.txt
- info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
- info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
reiser4.txt
- info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
relay.txt
- info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
romfs.txt
- description of the ROMFS filesystem.
smbfs.txt
- info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Win 3.11 and NT).
spufs.txt
- info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
sysfs-pci.txt
- info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
sysfs.txt
- info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
sysv-fs.txt
- info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
tmpfs.txt
- info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
udf.txt
- info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
ufs.txt
- info on the ufs filesystem.
vfat.txt
- info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
vfs.txt
- overview of the Virtual File System
xfs.txt
- info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
xip.txt
- info on execute-in-place for file mappings.