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-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/CHANGES8
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/README7
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/cifsfs.h2
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index f20c4069c220..227c681b816d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+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).
+
Version 1.58
------------
Guard against buffer overruns in various UCS-2 to UTF-8 string conversions
@@ -10,6 +16,8 @@ we converted from). Fix endianness of the vcnum field used during
session setup to distinguish multiple mounts to same server from different
userids. Raw NTLMSSP fixed (it requires /proc/fs/cifs/experimental
flag to be set to 2, and mount must enable krb5 to turn on extended security).
+Performance of file create to Samba improved (posix create on lookup
+removes 1 of 2 network requests sent on file create)
Version 1.57
------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index db208ddb9899..6d1608fabde9 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -388,8 +388,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
or the CIFS Unix Extensions equivalent and for those
this mount option will have no effect. Exporting cifs mounts
under nfsd requires this mount option on the cifs mount.
+ This is now the default if server supports the
+ required network operation.
noserverino Client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one
- from the server) by default.
+ from the server). These inode numbers will vary after
+ unmount or reboot which can confuse some applications,
+ but not all server filesystems support unique inode
+ numbers.
setuids If the CIFS Unix extensions are negotiated with the server
the client will attempt to set the effective uid and gid of
the local process on newly created files, directories, and
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
index 3b6a85cd484d..9570a0e8023f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
@@ -100,5 +100,5 @@ extern long cifs_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
extern const struct export_operations cifs_export_ops;
#endif /* EXPERIMENTAL */
-#define CIFS_VERSION "1.58"
+#define CIFS_VERSION "1.59"
#endif /* _CIFSFS_H */