Examples—Mounting a CacheFS File System (mount)

The following example shows how to mount the NFS file system merlin:/docs as a CacheFS 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 shows how to make a Solaris 9 SPARC CD (HSFS file system) available as a CacheFS file system named /cfssrc. Because you cannot write to the CD, the ro argument is specified to make the CacheFS file system read-only. This example assumes that vold is not running.

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /sol9
# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=hsfs,cachedir=/cfs/cache,ro,noconst,
backpath=/sol9 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cfssrc
# ls /cfssrc
Copyright  Solaris_9

The following example shows how to mount a Solaris 9 SPARC CD as a CacheFS file system with vold running.

# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=hsfs,cachedir=/cfs/cache,ro,noconst,
backpath=/cdrom/sol_9_sparc/s0 /vol/dev/dsk/c0t2d0/sol_9_sparc/s0 /cfssrc

The following example shows how to mount a CD as a CacheFS file system with vold running.

# mount -F cachefs -o backfstype=hsfs,cachedir=/cfs/cache,ro,noconst,
backpath=/cdrom/epson /vol/dev/dsk/c0t2d0/epson /drvrs

The following example uses the demandconst option to specify consistency checking on demand for the NFS CacheFS file system /docs, whose back file system is merlin:/docs. For more information, see Consistency Checking of a CacheFS File System.

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