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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index a584f05403a4..345392c4caeb 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -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 |