Hm. Do we need this in the cifs module? We already have so many cifs specific options. I mean, this feature might be useful for when handling buggy applications but there is nothing cifs specific in it. Should this rather be a mount option that affects the VFS layer itself, and thus protects ALL filesystems from these kind of buggy applications? (It can also be solved by ACLs on the server. A top level ACE that denied delete and that is inherited to all child objects) Regards ronnie s On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:14 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In order to handle workloads where it is important to make sure that > a buggy app did not delete content on the drive, the new mount option > "nodelete" allows standard permission checks on the server to work, > but prevents on the client any attempts to unlink a file or delete > a directory on that mount point. This can be helpful when running > a little understood app on a network mount that contains important > content that should not be deleted. > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve
