This fixes xfstest generic/184 on smb3 mounts On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "sfu" mount option did not work on SMB2/SMB3 mounts. > With these changes when the "sfu" mount option is passed in > on an smb2/smb2.1/smb3 mount the client can emulate (and > recognize) fifo and device (character and device files). > > In addition the "sfu" mount option should not conflict > with "mfsymlinks" (symlink emulation) as we will never > create "sfu" style symlinks, but using "sfu" mount option > will allow us to recognize existing symlinks, created with > Microsoft "Services for Unix" (SFU and SUA). > > To enable the "sfu" mount option for SMB2/SMB3 the calling > syntax of the generic cifs/smb2/smb3 sync_read and sync_write > protocol dependent function needed to be changed (we > don't have a file struct in all cases), but this actually > ended up simplifying the code a little. > > Patch attached and also at: > > http://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-next > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
