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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ The direct-io mode can be selected with the FOPEN_DIRECT_IO flag in the
FUSE_OPEN reply.
In direct-io mode the page cache is completely bypassed for reads and writes.
-No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled.
+No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled by default. To allow shared
+mmap, the FUSE_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP flag may be enabled in the FUSE_INIT reply.
In cached mode reads may be satisfied from the page cache, and data may be
read-ahead by the kernel to fill the cache. The cache is always kept consistent