questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Xen]

Xen schreef op 20-06-2017 10:53:

> exFAT has support for large files and has much better write
> performance than NTFS on Linux.
> 
> It is compatible with MacOS 10.6.5 too.

Also if you are going to use ext2/3/4 you are going to be running into 
permission issues all the time because you can't really turn them off.

Anybody who has physical access to a machine (any machine) can access 
anything on every removable medium.

Therefore permisisons hardly mean anything on a removable device.

The only way I know to clear that issue is to make everything world 
writable, (777 or 666) which will mess up the shell display of 
directories unless you change the colours of your shell, which is more 
work.

Or, now you have to ensure that everything is group writable and that 
every user needing access is part of that group, always, which is also 
more work.

Then, you have to set g+s permissions so that new files are created with 
the required group, and ideally you also have to set default inherited 
setfacl permissions so that new files also have g+w permissions set.

Which is also more work.

And all of this to get around an unneeded feature that you can't turn 
off.

However if you need symlinks then you need a Linux filesystem.

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