[colug-432] CYGWIN and NTFS

[Jeff Stebelton]

What is the Microsoft tax?
On Feb 1, 2014 2:30 PM, "Rick Troth" <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> On 02/01/2014 10:46 AM, Rob Funk wrote:
> > Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might
> be
> > better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for
> > each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.
>
> I've been looking for a way to map Windows SID codes in NTFS to UID/GID
> in Linux space. It appears that the latest NTFS-3G supports it, but not
> clear if that is available in the GPL version or just proprietary. In
> any case, mapping SID cods to UID/GID does not seem to be automated in
> the popular distros (yet).
>
> CYGWIN does a slick job of mapping SID codes to UID/GID pairs, but it
> can do that because it's sitting right there in a Windows context. The
> last field within the GECOS field in /etc/passwd or /etc/group is
> magically mapped to a Windows SID code. If you care to edit your UID/GID
> values then things line up nicely with your Unix/Linux/POSIX systems.
>
> VFAT is "safer" in that it doesn't carry ownership info. VFAT makes a
> lot of sense for multi-system storage. (Just watch out for the Microsoft
> tax. As I recall, they hit Android; not sure who else.)
>
> -- R; <><
>
>
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