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Date:      Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:05:48 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        wsanchez@apple.com
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems 
Message-ID:  <199910071705.SAA00496@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Oct 1999 17:24:14 PDT." <199910070024.RAA26518@scv3.apple.com> 

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> | Please, don't give me this crap. "Removable media" is a very
> | well-defined terminology.
> 
>   Only in screw-your-device-into-the-machine land.
> 
>   We're have to consider hot-swappable devices, including hard disks  
> and floppies and video cameras and new-uber-whatzit-media.

The admin has to ``mount -u'' it local - it should default to foreign.

> 	-Fred
> 
> 
> --
>        Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com
> Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD
>           Technical Lead, Darwin Project
>    1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>




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