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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2005-08-18 20:49:57 -0700
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2005-08-18 20:49:57 -0700
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[CIFS] Add mount option for disabling sending byte range lock requests
over the wire (to help the case when applications break with cifs mandatory lock behavior. Add part one of mount option for requesting case insensitive path name matching. Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
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@@ -407,6 +407,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
This has no effect if the server does not support
Unicode on the wire.
nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
+ nocase Request case insensitive path name matching (case
+ sensitive is the default if the server suports it).
+ 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
+ cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory
+ byte range locks).
remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
or vice versa)