[linux-cifs-client] Re: DFS patches - progress

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:36:44 -0500
"Steve French" <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having a little trouble configuring/debugging the dns_resolver.sh
> upcall but the DFS link to ip address (127.0.0.1) works and requests
> to DFS refs with hostnames does not trap since Dave Howell's patch
> fixes the oops in the security/keys upcall.
> 
> The beginning of the /proc/mounts entry for the submount looks ugly
> though (with the escape 134s in it)
> \134\134127.0.0.1\134stevef /mnt/dfs2docs cifs
> rw,unc=\\127.0.0.1\stevef,username=stevef,nocase,posixpaths,acl,rsize=16384,wsize=57344
> 0 0
> 

If you replace the backslashes with forward slashes in the
vfsmount.mnt_devname, then that will look prettier. The userspace mount
helper does this for "normal" mounts.

> Coding the same kind of cifs fake-finddata patch fix for the
> non-Unix/Linux/Samba case now.
> 


-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>