Commit f0472d0e authored by Steve French's avatar Steve French

[CIFS] Add mention of new mount parm (forceuid) to cifs readme

Also update fs/cifs/CHANGES
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
parent 4ae1507f
......@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Version 1.59
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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
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......@@ -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.
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