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On 27/06/2013 03:33, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 06:40:02PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>>> Windows compatibility is not a must, but a nice-to-have. That would reduce my |
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>>>> remaining choices to ExFAT, I presume. |
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>> BTW: What's the Linux status on that one? |
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> Well, the German Wikipedia says that a stable 1.0 came out in January. |
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> It’s “only” a FUSE fs, but so is NTFS. I’ll do some testing with it. |
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>>> That's how I see it too. |
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>>> I used to use ext4 for external media but quickly found that my notebook |
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>>> was the only box that could use them... |
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>> Isn't group id 100 defined as the users group on most Linuxen nowadays? |
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>> chgrp 100 $mount && chmod 2777 $mount |
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> That still leaves UID. I want it to “just work”[TM] and never encounter |
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> any problems when I can least use them, and never have to check any file |
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> attributes. |
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>> should work reasonably well. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Florian Philipp |
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> I’ll keep the uid and gid bit on the stack. I would disable the x bit |
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> though. Executables are lime in DIR_COLORS, overriding every other |
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> colouring (e.g. red archive, green text and purple media files). *g* |
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> I’m more concerned about the behaviour of automounters. And I faintly |
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> remember some user-centric setting as to what the default chmod of new |
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> files is, so I would have to do some chmod -R from time to time. |
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The Unix filesystem model simply does not allow you to do that easily - |
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it is designed to do something else entirely and do that thing well |
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You can't even override the uid/gid/perms at mount time. The central |
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premise is that the user must set those values on his own files whenever |
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he wants to and the rest of the universe must fall into line with those |
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wishes... |
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Look at what it takes to do something simple like set the default perms |
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on a new file in a shared directory to be 664 - you need to get dirty |
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with POSIX ACLs, and then a simple umask run in a shell session |
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overrules all of that. |
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exfat does what you want - it was designed to "just work" on the very |
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large removeable media we have nowadays (think 7G movie files) and |
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bypass all the nonsense like "does the user that created this file even |
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exist on the machine that is reading it?" |
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It also works pretty well |
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Alan McKinnon |
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