Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalin KOZHUHAROV <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem for mobile hard drive | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:23:42 +0900 |
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Phillip Susi wrote: > Nicolas George wrote:
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>> I believe that such options should not be done on a per-filesystem basis. >> Something in the common code of the VFS would be more logical. > > I agree. I think the VFS layer should process the uid/gid options. By > default it should replace nobody with the specified id, and fat and ntfs > should just report all files as owned by nobody. Then a new option > should be added to force the translation for all ids, not just nobody.
I might be wrong, but I always thought that NTFS has user/group and a bunch of other attributes, so it might not be a good idea to replace them hard under linux. Or am I wrong? I never used NTFS much, the few windoze machines around me use FAT32 for compatibility.
Kalin.
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