s3: Document gpfs:syncio
authorVolker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Mon, 16 May 2011 11:30:26 +0000 (13:30 +0200)
committerVolker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Mon, 16 May 2011 13:17:30 +0000 (15:17 +0200)
Autobuild-User: Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date: Mon May 16 15:00:40 CEST 2011 on sn-devel-104
(cherry picked from commit 3358d5a7cae1c2a99495c38069531fc87fe22b24)

docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_gpfs.8.xml

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                </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
 
+               <varlistentry>
+               <term>gpfs:syncio = [yes|no]</term>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>This parameter makes Samba open all files with O_SYNC.
+                 This triggers optimizations in GPFS for workloads that
+                 heavily share files.</para>
+
+               <para>Following is the behaviour of Samba for different
+                 values:
+               </para>
+               <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem><para><command>yes</command>Open files with O_SYNC
+               </para></listitem>
+               <listitem><para><command>no (default)</command>Open files as
+                   normal Samba would do
+               </para></listitem>
+               </itemizedlist>
+               </listitem>
+               </varlistentry>
+
        </variablelist>
 </refsect1>