[PATCH] doc: add information about nounix mount option
Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Also clarify the use of UniqueID when serverino is used with nounix. Thanks to Jeff Layton for explaining the no so clear details. Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> --- docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index 372b477..aa62334 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml @@ -483,6 +483,23 @@ permissions in memory that can't be stored on the server. This information can d </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term>nounix</term> + <listitem><para>Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this + mount. This can be useful in order to turn off multiple settings + all at once (i.e. POSIX acls, POSIX locks, POSIX paths, symlink + support and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server) or to + workaround a bug in server that support the Unix Extensions. + </para> + <para> + When Unix Extensions are disabled and "serverino" mount option + is enabled there is no way to get the server inode number. + So a "UniqueID" from the server is used, instead. UniqueID's are + often greater than 2 power 32. To avoid this make sure you + build your programs with LFS support. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> <term>nouser_xattr</term> <listitem><para>(default) Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set xattrs, even if server would support it otherwise. </para></listitem> </varlistentry>