| |||||||||||||
In BriefIn BriefPosted Jul 30, 2009 5:54 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)Parent article: In Brief
Remapping ext2/3 UIDs: this seems a little strange to me. On small systems, chmod -R works great (feed it with a find -owner if you're paranoid). And on big systems, it's really REALLY worth keeping your passwd files in sync.
What's the intent behind this feature? ext4 on usb flash drives?
(Log in to post comments)
In Brief Posted Jul 30, 2009 6:56 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] What's the intent behind this feature? ext4 on usb flash drives?Yes, and why not? It makes even more sense with portable USB hard drives. Just the other day saw a 1000Gb one advertised for 79 euros. ext3 or ext4 is definitely better for it than VFAT.
In Brief Posted Aug 3, 2009 21:48 UTC (Mon) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]
This is *SO* needed. I've been bitten by this oh-so-many times.
Why is VFAT the only usable file system for flash drives that I carry aronud to other Linux-systems? It's quite stupid if I might say so. :-)
Yes, yes, yes to this feature. It's really needed.
Remapping UIDs: ext only? Posted Aug 12, 2009 14:49 UTC (Wed) by sethml (subscriber, #8471) [Link]
What I don't understand is why this would be a feature for ext filesystems only, rather than a
general VFS feature, applicable to any filesystems. I'd have certainly found it very useful for NFS mounts in the past, since with NFS you often really have no control over the server-side UIDs. (In my case, NFS-mounting a crappy NAS box which had some user UIDs conflicting with standard Debian role accounts.)
|
|||||||||||||