ext? as fat or ntfs?

Lisa Kachold lisakachold at obnosis.com
Mon Jul 20 14:59:44 MST 2009


Hey,

This is your (and perhaps Google's summer of code) project.

I can perhaps describe it in both secure and insecure marketing ways,
but it's Han's baby.

{German genius is plagued with procrastination, I hear?}

On 7/20/09, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
>>
>> We're explicitly talking about USB drives, so might there be a way to
>> access multtiple filesystems on a single USB drive without needing admin
>> access?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>> --
>>
> Yes, but you would have to modify their project. I am going out on a limn
> here but I am guessing I am the only hard core windows admin on the list.
> Lisa probably knows the internal security better then I and we may have a
> few programmers willing to work on it, but it is likely we can get "layered"
> fs driver without having admin access. You will have to use your own GUI to
> interact with the drive, not explorer, but it can be done.
> But, you have to ask what your target is. Will 70% or more of the users in
> question have access to admin level privileges?  If so why not just include
> the real FS drivers on a FAT16 partition?
>


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