Re: [PATCH RESEND] implement uid and gid mount options for ext2, ext3 and ext4

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

However, 95% of this use case is already covered by FAT, considering
that most of these people are going to want to interchange with windows
and mac, neither of which are necessarily happy with an ext3 formatted
USB stick. (Sadly, that's what I normally do.  My usb keychain is fat
formatted, because otherwise I can't use it to give a PDF to the guy at
kinko's to print out. I suspect this is why it hasn't previously come up
much.)

The other reason why I suspect it hasn't come up often is that USB
sticks are so painfully slow that the file system really isn't a
bottleneck.

I would expct this might be different if you were using a removable
HDD (or even an SSD) with a USB 3.0 interface.  In that case you
really might want a bette file system than VFAT, especially if you are
interchanging with another Linux system with an incompatible uid/gid
namespace.  That's not nearly as common a use case, though.

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