From a403a0a370946e7dbcda6464a3509089daee54bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:54:16 +0000 Subject: [CIFS] Fix hang in find_writable_file Caused by unneeded reopen during reconnect while spinlock held. Fixes kernel bugzilla bug #7903 Thanks to Lin Feng Shen for testing this, and Amit Arora for some nice problem determination to narrow this down. Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/cifs/README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/cifs/README') diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 85f1eb14083..fa096f9c824 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -444,6 +444,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: noposixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, do not request posix path name support (this may cause servers to reject creatingfile with certain reserved characters). + nounix Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this mount (tree + connection). This is rarely needed, but it may be useful + in order to turn off multiple settings all at once (ie + posix acls, posix locks, posix paths, symlink support + and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server) or to + work around a bug in server which implement the Unix + Extensions. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3