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| author | Philipp Kerling <pkerling@casix.org> | 2025-06-08 20:59:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> | 2025-06-09 15:59:03 -0500 |
| commit | 93310053663ba647e402ef67e4bb18ec06ff8dc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 55f5afd213912186f8b9dac940fc94a86cc11309 /Documentation | |
| parent | 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494 (diff) | |
smb: client: disable path remapping with POSIX extensions
If SMB 3.1.1 POSIX Extensions are available and negotiated, the client
should be able to use all characters and not remap anything. Currently, the
user has to explicitly request this behavior by specifying the "nomapposix"
mount option.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4195bb677b33d680e77549890a4f4dd3b474ceaf.camel@rx2.rx-server.de
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kerling <pkerling@casix.org>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst index c09674a75a9e..d989ae5778ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst @@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ configured for Unix Extensions (and the client has not disabled illegal Windows/NTFS/SMB characters to a remap range (this mount parameter is the default for SMB3). This remap (``mapposix``) range is also compatible with Mac (and "Services for Mac" on some older Windows). +When POSIX Extensions for SMB 3.1.1 are negotiated, remapping is automatically +disabled. CIFS VFS Mount Options ====================== |