Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:48 -0700 From: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <199908181630.JAA25969@scv1.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <199908180508.WAA55082@scv4.apple.com>
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| > when new media is available and it will try to mount it. The
present
| > behaviour in Mac OS X Server is that everything mounted this
way is
| > trusted, though the Finder should be requesting nosetuid; I should
| > check that. It's also possible that the kernel will number
drives in
| > a different order (eg. /dev/sd0a this boot might be /dev/sd1a next
| > boot), particularly if you are shuffling drives around. (Remember
| > that hot-swap complicates this.) So a string like "/dev/sd0a" in
| > fstab is fragile, and it works out better if we keep that
information
| > on the mounted media rather than on the root volume.
|
| What happens with conflicting names?
Append "_1", "_2", etc.
-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
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