On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:31, Ian Malone wrote: > John Summerfied wrote: > > Ian Malone wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to do this for a FAT filesystem? I've > > > > One doesn't. > > FAT doesn't do permsissions, it doesn't do ACLs and it doesn't do > > extended attributes (unless you're running OS/2 or [probably] Mac OS > > which cheat). > > > >> got a server set up so I can play with things locally, but > >> I'd like to keep the files on my FAT drive. I've tried the > >> fscontext option, but so far have only managed to prevent > >> myself writing to it. > > > > I epect the best you could home for is for everying to have the same > > extended attributes as the mount point. > > Which is what the mount options like uid and umask do. There seems to > be a fscontext option, but I've been unsuccessful with it so far. > > > There's little reason to keep stuff on FAT, whether on Windows or Linux. > > It wastes great gobs of space, performs badly, doesn't provide security > > (Windows) or Unix functionality. And, it can't handle big files. > > Sharing files with a W9X based OS is one that comes to mind (not to > mention that the WinNT/XP ext drivers I can find have an unfinished > look). > > -- > imalone I don't remember who but someone wrote a driver for XPee to access ext3 file systems. You might want to search the archives or Google the subject. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
