[linux-cifs-client][patch] mount.cifs doc changes regarding mapchars option

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 12:29:50 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:11:16 -0500
Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:

> +                Unicode on the wire. Please note that files created
> +		with mapchars as a mount option may not be accessible
> +		from other clients or when during the mount without
> +		mapchars as a mount option.  Also, if your server
> +		supports POSIX path names/characters, do not use this
> +		option.</para></listitem>

Maybe this should be a programmatic change (if it's not already)...

If it's "bad" to mix mapchars and posix extensions, then maybe mapchars
should be ignored when posix extensions are enabled?


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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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