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| author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-07-26 15:54:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2007-07-26 15:54:16 +0000 |
| commit | a403a0a370946e7dbcda6464a3509089daee54bc (patch) | |
| tree | 6775fb2faae0a8a0ecab8304fb9c24006cc2e773 /fs/cifs/README | |
| parent | e4903fb59590f86190280a549420f6cb85bd7f7e (diff) | |
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[CIFS] Fix hang in find_writable_file
Caused by unneeded reopen during reconnect while spinlock held.
Fixes kernel bugzilla bug #7903
Thanks to Lin Feng Shen for testing this, and Amit Arora for
some nice problem determination to narrow this down.
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 85f1eb14083e..fa096f9c824d 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -444,6 +444,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: noposixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, do not request posix path name support (this may cause servers to reject creatingfile with certain reserved characters). + nounix Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this mount (tree + connection). This is rarely needed, but it may be useful + in order to turn off multiple settings all at once (ie + posix acls, posix locks, posix paths, symlink support + and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server) or to + work around a bug in server which implement the Unix + Extensions. nobrl Do not send byte range lock requests to the server. This is necessary for certain applications that break with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most |