[ros-dev] Security policy for FAT partition driver?

[James Tabor]

ea wrote:
> Robert Köpferl wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm, yea. That's basicly what I think of the wohle thing.
>> It should be possible for an IFS or another part to do a 1:1 or a 
>> 100:90  mapping of rights and users <-> SIDs
>>
> I guess this is done by the psxss.exe or by psxdll.dll, by mean of the 
> LSA, which lookups user and group names from the LDAP db on the DC. No 
> uid neither gid are stored in the fs metadata, only SIDs and ACLs, which 
> are what the LSA can eat.
> 
>> In my opinion there'S nothing to it to limit the user-part of SIDs to 
>> 16-bit and cut out just that.
>>
> Sorry not a POSIX guru here.
> 
>>
>> PS. My favorite is still JFS.
>> It has been prooved on OS/2 and OS/2 is our next relative. Its Src is 
>> open(GPL) and it supports most of the features. Even reparse points 
>> can be transparently implemented (EAs). I have nothing against s.o. 
>> implementing NTFS, but I see many problems. So cut & off
> 
> 
> 
> JFS is excellent on my experience in AIX: that OS has one of the most 
> advanced and robust volume management I have seen.

Found this;
http://jfs.sourceforge.net/


Thanks,
James