On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:59:52AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: > > > > Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility > > with Windows. It's not that long ago that Linux NTFS support was a bit > > flaky, so we don't do it solely by our own choice. > > One use case that is significantly easier with NTFS is setting up a > shared local storage for several users on the same system. > > With NTFS one can just use mount options to ensure all files/directories > have the correct ownership and permissions[1].
I have kind of similar requirements with respect to shared folder under Samba. > With native file systems one has to mess around with umasks for each > user and environment (console, X session and systemd --user, possibly > also Wayland). > > Or configure some daemon (cron job, systemd timer, inotify, etc.) to fix > ownership and permissions in the background. Yuck! > > I'd be interested to know if there are better ways to do this. How about Linux ACL? Will that help? I plan to explore ACL for my requirements. > [1] uid, gid, fmask and dmask mount options > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Cheers, Didar -- Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
