Re: VFAT vs. umask.
David,
thanks for the reply.
From: David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:29 -0500
> When you copy files that have varied permissions onto the FAT, you may
> get warnings about permissions that can't be honoured. (IIRC, copying
> ug=r,o= would not complain, whereas u=r,go= would.)
Primary store is an SD card. Rsync is used for backup. Therefore
this dilema.
* In Linux, an ext file system avoids those complications. To my
knowledge, all SD cards are preformatted with a FAT. Therefore ext
requires reformatting.
* Most advice about flash storage is to avoid reformatting.
Unfortunately most or all of this advice is written by software
people; none, that I recall, from a flash storage manufacturer.
My own experience, is one SD card about a decade old, reformatted to
ext2 when new and still working. A second SD purchased recently with
factory format unchanged seems very slow in mounting. As if running
fsck before every mount. -8~/
Certainly tempted to reformat the new card to ext2. Information
always welcome. Knowledge even better.
Thx, ... P.
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