From 6a0b48245a135cd132e747815854e3999967f8a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:41:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] cifs: Add new mount parm mapchars For handling seven special characters that shells use for filenames. This first parts implements conversions from Unicode. Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/cifs/README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/cifs/README') diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 0f20edc935b5..83e054576258 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -376,6 +376,17 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: attributes) to the server (default) e.g. via setfattr and getfattr utilities. nouser_xattr Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set xattrs + mapchars Translate the seven reserved characters + *?<>|:\ + to the remap range (above 0xF000), which also + allows the CIFS client to recognize files created with + such characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This can + also be useful when mounting to most versions of Samba + (which also forbids creating and opening files + whose names contain any of these seven characters). + This has no effect if the server does not support + Unicode on the wire. + nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default). The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o including: -- cgit v1.2.2