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Authored by Suresh Jayaraman
Committed by Steve French
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cifs: update README to include details about 'fsc' option 

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

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301 301 gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
302 302 file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
303 303 this overrides the default mode for file inodes.
  304 + fsc Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache (off by default). This
  305 + option could be useful to improve performance on a slow link,
  306 + heavily loaded server and/or network where reading from the
  307 + disk is faster than reading from the server (over the network).
  308 + This could also impact scalability positively as the
  309 + number of calls to the server are reduced. However, local
  310 + caching is not suitable for all workloads for e.g. read-once
  311 + type workloads. So, you need to consider carefully your
  312 + workload/scenario before using this option. Currently, local
  313 + disk caching is functional for CIFS files opened as read-only.
304 314 dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
305 315 this overrides the default mode for directory inodes.
306 316 port attempt to contact the server on this tcp port, before