Re: [patch] mount.cifs doc changes regarding mapchars option

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:11:16 -0500
> Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> +                Unicode on the wire. Please note that files created
>> +             with mapchars as a mount option may not be accessible
>> +             from other clients or when during the mount without
>> +             mapchars as a mount option.  Also, if your server
>> +             supports POSIX path names/characters, do not use this
>> +             option.</para></listitem>
>
> Maybe this should be a programmatic change (if it's not already)...
>
> If it's "bad" to mix mapchars and posix extensions, then maybe mapchars
> should be ignored when posix extensions are enabled?
>
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
>

I think it would be right thing to do to disable mapchars option when posix
extensions are enabled.  Let me work on the change.
But I think the content/comment change should be done (along with
the code change on which I am working).

Regards,

Shirish