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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-02-14 04:42:51 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-02-14 04:42:51 +0000
commit8af18971584d1e05770560206cfdfd1d6ba8a17f (patch)
tree5720ee5fa4de18eebc64d41b761e2f890d99b35e /fs/Kconfig
parent7ba526316ae122e60c0c7a40793491f71b9ec590 (diff)
[CIFS] on reconnect to Samba - reset the unix capabilities
After temporary server or network failure and reconneciton, we were not resending the unix capabilities via SetFSInfo - which confused Samba posix byte range locking code. Discovered by jra Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 8cd2417a14d..d57f363ea1a 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1871,20 +1871,14 @@ config CIFS
file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
- support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
- You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
- such as OS/2 and DOS.
+ support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
- network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
+ network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
- packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
- and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
- cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
- smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
- and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
- to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
+ packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
+ If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
config CIFS_STATS
bool "CIFS statistics"
@@ -1977,14 +1971,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
help
Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
- experimental and currently include support for writepages
- (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
- change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
- improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
- pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
- default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
-
- If unsure, say N.
+ experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
+ change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
+ mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
+ and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
+ setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
+ (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
+ for more details. If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_UPCALL
bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"