Re: Local shared storage configuration
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
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Cheers,
Didar
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