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| author |   Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com> | 2005-04-28 22:41:05 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-28 22:41:05 -0700 |
| commit | 6a0b48245a135cd132e747815854e3999967f8a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 55fffb67b924fbca2a5a16e83100a5d1000daaf4 /fs/cifs/README | |
| parent | [PATCH] cifs: fix rare oops in cifs_close (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-6a0b48245a135cd132e747815854e3999967f8a7.tar.xz linux-dev-6a0b48245a135cd132e747815854e3999967f8a7.zip | |
[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 <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/README')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
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: |