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Re: NTFS vs. Samba
On Aug 29 11:17, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 05:02 PM 8/29/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > bool is_ntfs = !strcmp (fsname, "NTFS");
> > bool is_samba = is_ntfs && is_remote_drive ()
> > && !(flags () & FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION);
> > has_ea ((is_ntfs && !is_samba) || !strcmp (fsname, "FAT"));
> > has_acls ((flags () & FS_PERSISTENT_ACLS)
> > && (allow_smbntsec || !is_samba));
> >
> >Any good reason not to do this?
>
> Yes. At work I believe I have a real remote NTFS, on which ordinary users
> have no permission to change ACLs. Thus it's crucial to be able to allow
> ntsec on the local machine but not on the remote machine.
> Perhaps smbntsec could take 3 values: off, on everywhere, on on real NTFS.
Hm, no, that's getting too complicated. Sic. Ok, scratch the idea.
It won't make sense to support EA on remote drives either then.
Corinna
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