[ros-dev] Security policy for FAT partition driver?  Steven
Edwards steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com Thu May 12 10:33:43 CEST 2005
--- Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote: >   How would you
reconcile the two different sets of owner and access  >
information associated with the file?  For instance, if someone
creates  > a file on the partition from Linux, then you mount it
with ROS, who owns  > the file?  Who has access to it?  Linux
would only place some  > meaningless uid and chmod mask in the
inode, so how would ROS come up  > with a sensible security
descriptor for the file when one does not  > already exist?
Windows would have this same problem with NTFS on Linux. If I am
under Linux and make changes to files and create files how does
linux-NTFS assign the proper SID and such to the files? This has
been a long time problem that NTFS has with taking a drive from
one Windows box to another. Its the same situation and mostly
pointless. 99% of new ReactOS are not going to care and the
resources we get from