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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem for mobile hard drive
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:07:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F0AEBE.70303@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dspj6u$s7f$1@sea.gmane.org>

Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, NTFS has the capability to store a posix uid and gid, but it is 
never actually used.  There is no good way to get NT to understand 
mappings to linux uid/gids, so the information it puts there is 
useless.  As a result, the Linux NTFS driver just makes all files owned 
by a fixed id you can specify at mount time, or defaults to root. 



  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-13 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-12 15:03 Filesystem for mobile hard drive Nicolas George
2006-02-13  0:46 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-13  1:07   ` Nicolas George
2006-02-13  2:26     ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-13  8:59       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-13  9:23       ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-02-13 16:07         ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2006-02-13 10:35       ` Nicolas George
2006-02-13 15:56         ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-13 17:18           ` Nicolas George

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