Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:35:41 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Pat Dirks <pwd@apple.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006172655.37031M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199910052119.OAA24627@scv1.apple.com>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > the problem is that numeric IDs in inodes (or their moral equivalent) > written on the filesystem on one system don't necessarily map to the same > user, if they're valid at all, on another system (although they MIGHT). > With ZIP drives holding appreciable volumes of data and multi-gigabyte > FireWire drives becoming more common this is an issue that will > definitely pop up more and more as people carry data with them on > removable disk filesystems. > [snip] Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group database is kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised manner by say hesiod or nys (nis+). It would be nice if there was an easy interface with these so that distributing the local system id numbers need not be done by hand. > -Patrick. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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