apache woes forbidden strange

[Ian Malone]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do this for a FAT filesystem?  I've
> 
> One doesn't.
> FAT doesn't do permsissions, it doesn't do ACLs and it doesn't do 
> extended attributes (unless you're running OS/2 or [probably] Mac OS 
> which cheat).
> 
>> got a server set up so I can play with things locally, but
>> I'd like to keep the files on my FAT drive.  I've tried the
>> fscontext option, but so far have only managed to prevent
>> myself writing to it.
> 
> 
> I epect the best you could home for is for everying to have the same 
> extended attributes as the mount point.

Which is what the mount options like uid and umask do.  There seems to
be a fscontext option, but I've been unsuccessful with it so far.

> 
> There's little reason to keep stuff on FAT, whether on Windows or Linux. 
> It wastes great gobs of space, performs badly, doesn't provide security 
> (Windows) or Unix functionality. And, it can't handle big files.
> 

Sharing files with a W9X based OS is one that comes to mind (not to
mention that the WinNT/XP ext drivers I can find have an unfinished
look).

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imalone