[linux-cifs-client] Strange kernel messages like "CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni..." appearing

D G Teed donald.teed at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 13:35:51 GMT 2008


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Marko Käning <mk362 at mch.osram.de> wrote:

>
> kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -10 returned -22
> ---8X---
>
> Lots of them. Nevertheless the backup seems to work.
>
> Since I am German I use umlauts in path names, which might be the cause of
> this. But I would like to find out which files or paths are affected. How
> to do this and how to avoid this trouble in the future??? Possibly only
> renaming of relevant paths is a way out, I guess?!
>

I've seen these on our console and we have no German in the file paths which
I am
aware of.  Perhaps the solution is to make the backup software ignore the
cifs mount
point and path.

--Donald
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