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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-06-06 17:09:39 -0400
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-06-06 17:09:39 -0400
commitf0472d0ec89bef2ea4432828c3daa1b26ef569aa (patch)
tree3241e426eee1e7a3233f9649e779984aa18f9b98
parent4ae1507f6d266d0cc3dd36e474d83aad70fec9e4 (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/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
2------------ 2------------
3Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than 3Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than
4client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned 4client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned
5on by default if server supports it). 5on by default if server supports it). Add forceuid and forcegid
6mount options (so that when negotiating unix extensions specifying
7which uid mounted does not immediately force the server's reported
8uids to be overridden).
6 9
7Version 1.58 10Version 1.58
8------------ 11------------
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:
262 mount. 262 mount.
263 domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the 263 domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
264 username during CIFS session establishment 264 username during CIFS session establishment
265 uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers 265 forceuid Set the default uid for inodes based on the uid
266 passed in. For mounts to servers
266 which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a 267 which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
267 properly configured Samba server, the server provides 268 properly configured Samba server, the server provides
268 the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be 269 the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
@@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
292 the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be 293 the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
293 at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid 294 at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
294 (or gid) in non-numeric form. 295 (or gid) in non-numeric form.
296 forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid)
297 uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
298 cifs kernel driver which local user mounted . If the server
299 supports the unix extensions the default uid is
300 not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
301 unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.
295 gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above). 302 gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
296 file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server 303 file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
297 this overrides the default mode for file inodes. 304 this overrides the default mode for file inodes.