From patchwork Sun May 23 19:56:06 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Andrea Gelmini X-Patchwork-Id: 102661 Received: from lists.samba.org (fn.samba.org [216.83.154.106]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4RCakXr013785 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 12:37:23 GMT Received: from fn.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2FB4673B; Thu, 27 May 2010 06:36:16 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on fn.samba.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.8 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Original-To: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Delivered-To: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6027EACFC9; Sun, 23 May 2010 13:57:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so825105fgg.8 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:57:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to:references; bh=r7kMc2bT+OFwoi65PXSg1gu407LC3/p6iliqtWWgRxY=; b=FJ0ZjiBjAmxDQzkSynHheJVLEDZxa1c/rf4SR2wYPLt891B6YDXUad4ReTv2DkQ4rk 2Bf+n8iGt9++yJahSXFQS5u/Q9ktrUK2nSHq+tJdNdaxvMPDQOJ1YaEL2FVhF3Wf5wgT e6a+V+wNpcuEpEoIoiy+2gKM6WNKrIIC+ROs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to :references; b=Ejj3s/babbZ/EDLEKza9P+0e6yrclB7jkNfsckS/sJe6dpgWAITdfPW2fKmNt30+kW obA31+6EZPuvTfaM/yec/IlGwCdlR9TiT1tjLTSW2izXzKDDhHr+MG2ktDfxbTOw88Mv P3Kd3QUiGcC5MpVhq3bQ7LpnUk4fT3k4qCvVk= Received: by 10.87.71.7 with SMTP id y7mr7171015fgk.63.1274644626264; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (net-93-145-200-9.t2.dsl.vodafone.it [93.145.200.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2866186fga.1.2010.05.23.12.57.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 23 May 2010 12:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Gelmini To: andrea.gelmini@gelma.net Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 21:56:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1274644605-25181-10-git-send-email-andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1.251.gf80a2 In-Reply-To: <1274644605-25181-1-git-send-email-andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> References: <1274644605-25181-1-git-send-email-andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 May 2010 06:34:19 -0600 Cc: Steve French , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Randy Dunlap , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 038/199] Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt: Checkpatch cleanup X-BeenThere: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: The Linux CIFS VFS client List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-cifs-client-bounces@lists.samba.org Errors-To: linux-cifs-client-bounces@lists.samba.org X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (demeter.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Thu, 27 May 2010 12:37:23 +0000 (UTC) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt index 49cc923..16aeb1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System - (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block + (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network - file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including + file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem module is designed to work well with servers that implement the - newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, - the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host + newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, + the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host into a SMB/CIFS file server. The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support - the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable + the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, not just in Linux to Windows environments. This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same - directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). + directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper requires specifying the server's ip address. @@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename - For Linux 2.5: + For Linux 2.5: mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password For more information on the module see the project page at - http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html + http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html For more information on CIFS see: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS or the Samba site: - + http://www.samba.org