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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt deleted file mode 100644 index db2e41393626..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -POHMELFS usage information. - -Mount options. -All but index, number of crypto threads and maximum IO size can changed via remount. - -idx=%u - Each mountpoint is associated with a special index via this option. - Administrator can add or remove servers from the given index, so all mounts, - which were attached to it, are updated. - Default it is 0. - -trans_scan_timeout=%u - This timeout, expressed in milliseconds, specifies time to scan transaction - trees looking for stale requests, which have to be resent, or if number of - retries exceed specified limit, dropped with error. - Default is 5 seconds. - -drop_scan_timeout=%u - Internal timeout, expressed in milliseconds, which specifies how frequently - inodes marked to be dropped are freed. It also specifies how frequently - the system checks that servers have to be added or removed from current working set. - Default is 1 second. - -wait_on_page_timeout=%u - Number of milliseconds to wait for reply from remote server for data reading command. - If this timeout is exceeded, reading returns an error. - Default is 5 seconds. - -trans_retries=%u - This is the number of times that a transaction will be resent to a server that did - not answer for the last @trans_scan_timeout milliseconds. - When the number of resends exceeds this limit, the transaction is completed with error. - Default is 5 resends. - -crypto_thread_num=%u - Number of crypto processing threads. Threads are used both for RX and TX traffic. - Default is 2, or no threads if crypto operations are not supported. - -trans_max_pages=%u - Maximum number of pages in a single transaction. This parameter also controls - the number of pages, allocated for crypto processing (each crypto thread has - pool of pages, the number of which is equal to 'trans_max_pages'. - Default is 100 pages. - -crypto_fail_unsupported - If specified, mount will fail if the server does not support requested crypto operations. - By default mount will disable non-matching crypto operations. - -mcache_timeout=%u - Maximum number of milliseconds to wait for the mcache objects to be processed. - Mcache includes locks (given lock should be granted by server), attributes (they should be - fully received in the given timeframe). - Default is 5 seconds. - -Usage examples. - -Add server server1.net:1025 into the working set with index $idx -with appropriate hash algorithm and key file and cipher algorithm, mode and key file: -$cfg A add -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -K $hash_key -k $cipher_key - -Mount filesystem with given index $idx to /mnt mountpoint. -Client will connect to all servers specified in the working set via previous command: -mount -t pohmel -o idx=$idx q /mnt - -Change permissions to read-only (-I 1 option, '-I 2' - write-only, 3 - rw): -$cfg A modify -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -I 1 - -Change IO priority to 123 (node with the highest priority gets read requests). -$cfg A modify -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -P 123 - -One can check currect status of all connections in the mountstats file: -# cat /proc/$PID/mountstats -... -device none mounted on /mnt with fstype pohmel -idx addr(:port) socket_type protocol active priority permissions -0 server1.net:1026 1 6 1 250 1 -0 server2.net:1025 1 6 1 123 3 - -Server installation. - -Creating a server, which listens at port 1025 and 0.0.0.0 address. -Working root directory (note, that server chroots there, so you have to have appropriate permissions) -is set to /mnt, server will negotiate hash/cipher with client, in case client requested it, there -are appropriate key files. -Number of working threads is set to 10. - -# ./fserver -a 0.0.0.0 -p 1025 -r /mnt -w 10 -K hash_key -k cipher_key - - -A 6 - listen on ipv6 address. Default: Disabled. - -r root - path to root directory. Default: /tmp. - -a addr - listen address. Default: 0.0.0.0. - -p port - listen port. Default: 1025. - -w workers - number of workers per connected client. Default: 1. - -K file - hash key size. Default: none. - -k file - cipher key size. Default: none. - -h - this help. - -Number of worker threads specifies how many workers will be created for each client. -Bulk single-client transafers usually are better handled with smaller number (like 1-3). |