Re: [PATCH 1/3] cifs: make overriding of ownership conditional on new mount options

Steve French <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Jeff Layton<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:12:56 -0500
> Steve French <[email protected]> wrote:
>>debug message to note when the user specified
>> "forceuid" and Unix extensions were not negotiated? or perhaps that is
>> unimportant ... and the more important case of "they specified a uid
>> or gid, but the server's uids don't seem to match the client uids" and
>> should have specified forceuid?)
>>
>>
>
> Thanks,
>
> I don't see any point in warning when unix extensions aren't
> negotiated. The way I look at it is this -- when the owner can't be
> determined then we use the default uid/gid for the share. The new
> options just force this even when the uid/gid can be determined. When
> they're specified on a share where we can't determine the ownership,
> then they're just ignored.

OK ... that logic makes sense.



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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