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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-07-26 15:54:16 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-07-26 15:54:16 +0000
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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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@@ -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
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