On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:36 +0000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > Craig White <craigwhite <at> azapple.com> writes: > > I don't have an NTFS drive that I'm willing to connect up just for > > experimentation > > NTFS support on Linux is fully self-contained just like ext3, XFS, FAT, JFS, > etc, i.e. no need for an alian NTFS drive to do experiments: > > http://ntfs-3g.org/quality.html#howtotest > > > Thus the concept of 'users' and 'mapping', though intriguing, would be > > rather pointless for an NTFS filesystem mounted by ntfs-3g > > Linux-Windows user/group mapping is possible by a file on the NTFS volume called > UserMapping. NTFS ownership and permission support currently available as beta > with the full endorsement and support of the NTFS-3G project from > > http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/security.html > > Regards, ---- Szaka - extremely impressive, thanks for the clarity and the major efforts. Still, I'm not likely to use NTFS for durable storage on Linux but I feel that I can confidently use ntfs instead of vfat for portable hard drives instead of vfat. User/Group mapping via a manually maintained file is not my idea of fun but it has to begin somewhere. Thanks Craig
