[CIFS] Add mention of new mount parm (forceuid) to cifs readme

Also update fs/cifs/CHANGES

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 227c681b816dea1687c3c382ee4af7887923d5e1..b48689839428805efd6175eacd0a7396068cdafe 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Version 1.59
 ------------
 Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than
 client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned
-on by default if server supports it).
+on by default if server supports it).  Add forceuid and forcegid
+mount options (so that when negotiating unix extensions specifying
+which uid mounted does not immediately force the server's reported
+uids to be overridden).
 
 Version 1.58
 ------------

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 6d1608fabde9de32b433b898e3bf723fa3977f7f..ad92921dbde415b7a00d0c063d6ca9adfb0d582d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
                mount.  
   domain       Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
                username during CIFS session establishment
-  uid          Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers
+  forceuid     Set the default uid for inodes based on the uid
+               passed in. For mounts to servers
                which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
                properly configured Samba server, the server provides
                the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should  not be
@@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
                the client.  Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
                at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
                (or gid) in non-numeric form.
+  forcegid     (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid)
+  uid          Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
+               cifs kernel driver which local user mounted . If the server
+               supports the unix extensions the default uid is
+               not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
+               unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.
   gid          Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
   file_mode     If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
                this overrides the default mode for file inodes.