man mount: The syntax of external mount helpers is: /sbin/mount.<suffix> spec dir [-sfnv] [-o options] [-t type.subtype] Unfortunately mount.cifs reports -s as unknown option, so we need an exception in libmount to use -s for NFS only ;-( It would be nice to standardize the API and support (or silently ignore) all the options everywhere. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28682
Note that ideal (from my point of view) would be to link mount.cifs with libmount. There is function to parse specific command line options, so whole API between mount(8) and mount.<type> helpers is hidden within library and maintained on one place. The library also provides some another functions for work with fstab and mtab, mount options parsing, ... We already use the library in mount.nfs (Fedora >= 16). If you agree, I can prepare some patches for [u]mount.cifs too.
That sounds like a fine idea in principle. I'd be all for moving mount.cifs to libmount. We deprecated umount.cifs a while ago, so there should be no need for that. The only problem here is that this is more than a userspace problem. For NFS, -s just adds "sloppy" to the mount option string that it passes to the kernel. We should make that do do the same for mount.cifs/cifs.ko, but we'll also need to fix up the in-kernel mount option parser to respect that option as well. Unfortunately, mount option parsing in cifs.ko is an absolute mess...
Patches for both pieces (userspace and kernel) have been proposed upstream. The kernel piece is built on top of Sachin's change to switch cifs.ko to use the standard option parser: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/5787 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/5777 Just waiting for comment from the maintainer (Steve French) at this point.
cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17
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The kernel support for this option: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=d81625587f4fac44a4367c468ba2fe2d981460f8 ie: Linux 3.4-rc1
cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.