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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:34:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Hyunchul Lee To: Namjae Jeon Cc: Hyunchul Lee , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 7/7] docs/fs/ntfs: add mount options to support Windows native symbolic links Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:33:37 +0900 Message-ID: <20260612-topic-symlink-v1-7-cc1ebf9528e1@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260612-topic-symlink-v1-0-cc1ebf9528e1@gmail.com> References: <20260612-topic-symlink-v1-0-cc1ebf9528e1@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: b4 0.13.0 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=openpgp-sha256; l=1701; i=hyc.lee@gmail.com; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=PsGuPFApl2uLrm2OEy+FMZkFyAqsshOQ6i+w3MfznxQ=; b=owEBbQKS/ZANAwAKATTyMPr3jkjTAcsmYgBqK7XwXV+llTaY7YRVCNTk6Meab+Qkhq2M4DzDC VGPStZtjHqJAjMEAAEKAB0WIQTVhSnMU3bjbW4eb2I08jD6945I0wUCaiu18AAKCRA08jD6945I 06iwD/9USiShiFkyO6/bE6TYL3FZrcSTAwKJaAPlTB5TRpjTTtF2Yixg/hcEZDPGqmCZMJu47lZ qEcKtH1hdofCHNrYtSrU4uDrgvQih5jJSScPjawnriW8/1EPTAc05J2l6Psz6QP631f34H5k5Lw 9H3f9QijXAYv2bZwLvaVLyvF/gz75iJeUWSnBtIAhbBG+c0o234XkHEA33RLIWtGCI3tZo3pPSh 6IR0Ty0iUS7fvydKAhXbL2jWlXWDp+o//tUoWOSRN0NoGoIX7WQKt8FDKSu8wCCKtoyv8kkv+1C 5Y0NQ/c3zMn/hzGCj0xHpG7XFbvf+D5RuMPdgARY5Dm30g7IkTqHl5xD38QkPNMsTs4rJeglDdj PwZsGH51pNuHFBNFh/kDFVNOebWqdqihgyQEddlKJb9lQMpUFuQk6kJAvsxbyfzVYcMiIx65aCw vWvnZ3YiaciOyoZ4fizSt7Kcm9hOQTJGY1egg6xMzy+Y9CdX7oc8hIMrgCsJkd0TDiVPfUgECVS KJ982+KyKNkaiA90VFo/gxhgA9+oM9j88GU4d04lTElk2hv1wP4EmaxKQqDlvTJD3s3FWo1Tcef 9NF+dGol1y+Qe0OOyUvAvCYYiLUgMglu6jISxGd9L/z1PBkVGFwn+VJO/gyFD0tybHZ7cPOvZNb AdowlRm5l6+JTuA== X-Developer-Key: i=hyc.lee@gmail.com; a=openpgp; fpr=D58529CC5376E36D6E1E6F6234F230FAF78E48D3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Introduce the "symlink=" and the "native_symlink=" mount options to configure the creation behavior of symbolic links and support creating Windows native symbolic links (reparse points with the IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK tag). Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee --- Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst index 5c96b04a4d7a..4bfa392daec6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst @@ -156,4 +156,17 @@ windows_names= Refuse creation/rename of files with characters or discard= Issue block device discard for clusters freed on file deletion/truncation to inform underlying storage. + +native_symlink=raw|rel Configure how absolute symbolic links and mount + points (junctions) are handled. Under "raw" + (default), the absolute target path is returned + as-is without translation. Under "rel", it is + rewritten as a relative path anchored at + the volume root. + +symlink=wsl|native Configure how symbolic links are created. Under + "wsl" (default), WSL (Windows Subsystem for + Linux) compatible symlinks are created. Under + "native", Windows native symbolic links are + created. ======================= ==================================================== -- 2.43.0