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-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/CHANGES5
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/README9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 227c681b816d..b48689839428 100644
--- 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 6d1608fabde9..ad92921dbde4 100644
--- 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.