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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-06-06 21:09:39 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-06-06 21:09:39 +0000
commitf0472d0ec89bef2ea4432828c3daa1b26ef569aa (patch)
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parent4ae1507f6d266d0cc3dd36e474d83aad70fec9e4 (diff)
downloadlinux-f0472d0ec89bef2ea4432828c3daa1b26ef569aa.tar.bz2
[CIFS] Add mention of new mount parm (forceuid) to cifs readme
Also update fs/cifs/CHANGES Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/CHANGES5
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/README9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 227c681b816d..b48689839428 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Version 1.59
------------
Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than
client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned
-on by default if server supports it).
+on by default if server supports it). Add forceuid and forcegid
+mount options (so that when negotiating unix extensions specifying
+which uid mounted does not immediately force the server's reported
+uids to be overridden).
Version 1.58
------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 6d1608fabde9..ad92921dbde4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
mount.
domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
username during CIFS session establishment
- uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers
+ forceuid Set the default uid for inodes based on the uid
+ passed in. For mounts to servers
which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
properly configured Samba server, the server provides
the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
@@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
(or gid) in non-numeric form.
+ forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid)
+ uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
+ cifs kernel driver which local user mounted . If the server
+ supports the unix extensions the default uid is
+ not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
+ unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.
gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
this overrides the default mode for file inodes.