mount.cifs currently complains about the "comment" option: CIFS: Unknown mount option "comment=foo" mount(8) on Linux says: The command mount does not pass the mount options unbindable, runbindable, private, rprivate, slave, rslave, shared, rshared, auto, noauto, comment, x-*, loop, offset and sizelimit to the mount.<suffix> helpers. So if mount.cifs decides to re-read /etc/fstab it should ignore the comment option. A lot of online posts say to use comment=x-gvfs-show as an option to have a Linux file manager display a mountpoint for a user mountable filesystem. While the "comment=" part is superfluous when combined with an x-* option, the problem is still difficult to debug. Patch attached... peace & happiness, martin
>From 97a071f7f1bf5274c027ee92fc0f6ca629ecdd65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwenke <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 11:16:39 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] mount.cifs: ignore comment mount option mount.cifs currently complains about the "comment" option: CIFS: Unknown mount option "comment=foo" mount(8) on Linux says: The command mount does not pass the mount options unbindable, runbindable, private, rprivate, slave, rslave, shared, rshared, auto, noauto, comment, x-*, loop, offset and sizelimit to the mount.<suffix> helpers. So if mount.cifs decides to re-read /etc/fstab it should ignore the comment option. A lot of online posts say to use comment=x-gvfs-show as an option to have a Linux file manager display a mountpoint for a user mountable filesystem. While the "comment=" part is superfluous when combined with an x-* option, the problem is still difficult to debug. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mount.cifs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mount.cifs.c b/mount.cifs.c index 4feb397..5d43c00 100644 --- a/mount.cifs.c +++ b/mount.cifs.c @@ -777,6 +777,8 @@ static int parse_opt_token(const char *token) return OPT_BKUPGID; if (strcmp(token, "nofail") == 0) return OPT_NOFAIL; + if (strcmp(token, "comment") == 0) + return OPT_IGNORE; if (strncmp(token, "x-", 2) == 0) return OPT_IGNORE; if (strncmp(token, "snapshot", 8) == 0) -- 2.28.0
