[CIFS] Add mount option for disabling sending byte range lock requests

over the wire (to help the case when applications break with cifs mandatory
lock behavior.  Add part one of mount option for requesting case
insensitive path name matching.

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 34b0cf7111f3..3b610d08dc1e 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -407,6 +407,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
                 This has no effect if the server does not support
                 Unicode on the wire.
  nomapchars     Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
+ nocase         Request case insensitive path name matching (case
+                sensitive is the default if the server suports it).
+ nobrl          Do not send byte range lock requests to the server.
+                This is necessary for certain applications that break
+                with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most
+                cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory
+                byte range locks).
  remount        remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
                 or vice versa)