Examples--Specifying a File System to be Mounted in a Cache With mount

The following example creates the mount point /docs, and mounts the NFS file system merlin:/docs as a cached file system named /docs in the cache named /local/mycache.

# mkdir /docs
# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=nfs,cachedir=/local/mycache merlin:/docs /docs

The following example makes a CD-ROM (HSFS file system) available as a cached file system named /docs. Because you cannot write to the CD-ROM, the ro argument is specified to make the cached file system read-only. You must specify the backpath option because Volume Management automatically mounts the CD-ROM when it is inserted. The mount point is in the /cdrom directory and is determined by the name of the CD-ROM. The special device to mount is the same as the value for the backpath command.

# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=hsfs,cachedir=/local/mycache,ro backpath=/cdrom/cdrom_name 
/cdrom/cdrom_name /docs

The following example uses the demandconst option to specify consistency checking on demand for the NFS cached file system /docs, whose back file system is merlin:/docs. See "Consistency Checking of Cached File Systems With the Back File System" for more information.

# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=nfs,cachedir=/local/mycache,demandconst merlin:/docs /docs