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@@ -376,6 +376,17 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
attributes) to the server (default) e.g. via setfattr
and getfattr utilities.
nouser_xattr Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set xattrs
+ mapchars Translate the seven reserved characters
+ *?<>|:\
+ to the remap range (above 0xF000), which also
+ allows the CIFS client to recognize files created with
+ such characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This can
+ also be useful when mounting to most versions of Samba
+ (which also forbids creating and opening files
+ whose names contain any of these seven characters).
+ This has no effect if the server does not support
+ Unicode on the wire.
+ nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o
including: