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| author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-06-06 21:09:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2009-06-06 21:09:39 +0000 |
| commit | f0472d0ec89bef2ea4432828c3daa1b26ef569aa (patch) | |
| tree | 3241e426eee1e7a3233f9649e779984aa18f9b98 | |
| parent | 4ae1507f6d266d0cc3dd36e474d83aad70fec9e4 (diff) | |
[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>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/CHANGES | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/README | 9 |
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. |