Hi all, I have been looking at the $SUBJECT. And there is already a bug reported in the samba.org bugzilla https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8950 cifs gets "Access denied" while trying to get the root inode. Suppose if you are trying to mount /share/dir/subdir and if the user doesn't have access to any of point along the path ie. /share or /dir, mount will fail. As noted by Jeff Layton in the bug report, this seems to be a known problem since we started using the shared superblock model. Though we can work around this problem by providing neccessary permissions for the entire path, users consider this as a regression. I tend to agree with them and think that may be we should have addressed this problem before pushing the shared superblock changes. >From the changelog it appears that this results in better performance when we use SMB2.1 leases. How much better performance we are seeing? Is that worth living with this regression? Does this affect the CIFS users who are not using SMB2.1 in anyway? Thanks -- Suresh Jayaraman -- 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
