Hi, I'm running a kernel built from a pull from Linus last night (v3.4-rc2-174-gecca5c3), patched with Sachin Prabhu's " Cleanup handling of NULL value passed for a mount option" patch, which hasn't made it to Linus yet. When I mount a partition on a small nas, I see strange file modes as is shown below: [chris:~]$ uname -r 3.4.0-rc2+ [chris:~]$ sudo mount /media/nas/share [chris:~]$ cp IMAG014* /media/nas/share/chris/upstairs/ [chris:~]$ ls -l /media/nas/share/chris/upstairs/ total 3980 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris users 0 Apr 13 06:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 2 chris users 0 Apr 5 12:01 ../ --w--wx-wT 1 chris users 1255508 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0147.jpg* --w--wx-wT 1 chris users 1388786 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0148.jpg* --w--wx-wT 1 chris users 1430092 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0149.jpg* The related line in fstab is: //nas/Share /media/nas/share cifs rw,noauto,noserverino,nosuid,nodev,user,guest,uid=1002,gid=100,file_mode=0666 0 0 When I reboot into 3.3.1, the same files look fine: [chris:~]$ uname -r 3.3.1 [chris:~]$ sudo mount /media/nas/share [chris:~]$ ls -l /media/nas/share/chris/upstairs/ total 3980 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris users 0 Apr 13 06:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 2 chris users 0 Apr 5 12:01 ../ -rw-rw-rw- 1 chris users 1255508 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0147.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 chris users 1388786 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0148.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 chris users 1430092 Apr 13 06:55 IMAG0149.jpg Let me know if I can help in fixing this regression. Please cc me on any reply - I'm not subscribed. Chris -- The more I see, the more I know. The more I know, the less I understand. Changing Man - Paul Weller -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html