Module Name: src Committed By: pooka Date: Fri Mar 4 09:10:34 UTC 2011
Modified Files: src/usr.bin/rump_allserver: rump_allserver.1 Log Message: Add note about block device properties. >From discussion with <riz>. To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files: Index: src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1 diff -u src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1:1.17 src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1:1.18 --- src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1:1.17 Wed Feb 23 19:59:18 2011 +++ src/usr.bin/rump_allserver/rump_allserver.1 Fri Mar 4 09:10:33 2011 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: rump_allserver.1,v 1.17 2011/02/23 19:59:18 pooka Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: rump_allserver.1,v 1.18 2011/03/04 09:10:33 pooka Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Antti Kantee. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ .Dq reg for block device, character device and regular file, respectively. The default is a block device. +.Pp +Note: the contents of block devices are cached in the rump kernel's +buffer cache. +To avoid cache incoherency, it is advisable not to access a file +through the host namespace while it is mapped as a block device in +a running rump kernel. .El .Pp In case