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authorTyler Fanelli2023-09-19 22:40:01 -0400
committerMiklos Szeredi2023-12-04 10:16:53 +0100
commit11ca77cdcca17cec909d2b97404ddacfec0acafd (patch)
treef3e345e9f82cef4a94cde84da8689df4beaf2315 /Documentation/filesystems
parentc55e0a55b165202f18cbc4a20650d2e1becd5507 (diff)
docs/fuse-io: Document the usage of DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP
By default, shared mmap is disabled in FUSE DIRECT_IO mode. However, when the DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP flag is enabled in the FUSE_INIT reply, shared mmap is allowed. Signed-off-by: Tyler Fanelli <tfanelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ The direct-io mode can be selected with the FOPEN_DIRECT_IO flag in the
FUSE_OPEN reply.
In direct-io mode the page cache is completely bypassed for reads and writes.
-No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled.
+No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled by default. To allow shared
+mmap, the FUSE_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP flag may be enabled in the FUSE_INIT reply.
In cached mode reads may be satisfied from the page cache, and data may be
read-ahead by the kernel to fill the cache. The cache is always kept consistent