On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:26:05 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: >> ¿NTFS? It should fit some of your requirements (works on windows, linux >> and MacOS -I think-) and allows ACL. > > It's not so much user ACL but the whole executable/read/write issue (I > get a bit sick of 100s of, eg. photos being marked executable, and > having to manually sort it out) — does NTFS support those kinds of > attributes?
Yep :-) In fact, NTFS has much more attributes than POSIX :-P File Ownership and Permissions http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/permissions.html Anyway, I would only recommend going to NTFS in the event you've got a windows system from where to perfom any maintenance tasks (scandisk and defrag) natively. >> A networked hard disk (stand-alone enclosure or attached to a computer >> via samba/nfs/sshfs) is desiderable when several OS need access on it. >> This way, filesystem does not matter at all :-) > > Unless there's no network ;) The context is me (a) spending 90% of my > time on Debian, but (b) being able to unplug the drive, take it > somewhere else, possibly with or without internet access or a LAN, and > having a better-than-miniscule chance of reading and writing to it. But > I think I should spend some more time doing some research (or give up > and hope the target computer supports EXT2). It seems like an impossible > problem — there's no intersection between {filesystems that do what I > want} and {filesystems supported by certain complacent and closed > operating systems} and {filesystems with up-to-date tools}. > > Besides, I already paid for the USB HDD :P Yes, it is (still nowadays) a big issue. - FAT32 is nice/flexible but has the 4 GiB filesize limits that can be a real handycap if working with big files - NTFS is a bit better in this regards, but is propietary software and quite obfuscated though works well. - Ext3 (or modern *NIX filesystems, such ReiserFS, XFS...) requiere some thrird-party programs to be installed in Windows, and not sure how are these filesystems handled by MacOS :-? So yes, under this panorama UDF seemed the best alternative, but I think is a bit unmature to be a trustworthy alternative. We (users) are stuck :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.02.16.13.06...@gmail.com
