ext? as fat or ntfs?

[Lisa Kachold]

On 7/20/09, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 20. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so:
>
>> 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.
>
> Possibly. In the end I think we need to find some other people to do this.
> Maybe get the samba team interested by billing it as a live samba drive or
> something.
>
>> 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.
>
> Cool to hear that it's probably possible without admin privs even if it's
> a pain.
>
>> 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?
>
> I'm beginning to think we need to start off with something that requires
> admin privs, but not a reboot.
>
> After that we can work on a solution that doesn't require admin privs.
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

That's already been done:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4980952387.html

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