From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem for mobile hard drive
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:23:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dspj6u$s7f$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EFEE57.7070009@cfl.rr.com>
Phillip Susi wrote:
> Nicolas George wrote:
[snip]
>> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 9:24 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 [this message]
2006-02-13 16:07 ` Phillip Susi
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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