[geeks] Weird MacOS issue

[Rick Hamell]

>> So when Rick refers to the File Allocation Table as a FAT he gets away
>> with it, and when I do it you assume I'm referring to FATx filesystems
>> used in Windows.
> 
> I didn't see his post, but you did mention it in the context of Windows
> and MBRs, neither of which I've needed to do storage management on a
> Mac.
> 
> 
> [0] Quick test: Share a folder on your Mac via SMB.  Mount that share on a
>     Windows box.  Save a new file in notepad to the share.  Note the
>     permissions (0644).  Save a new file in Microsoft Word (XP, 2003, or
>     2007) to the share.  Note the permissions (0000 + an ACL).  The POSIX
>     permissions field does not inherit the effective ACL field (probably
>     due to some difference in which APIs are used on the client side, but
>     that's immaterial from the end user's perspective).  During certain
>     sorts of manipulations (copying the file to a different volume,
>     zipping/unzipping), the ACL is dropped, so you're left with a file you
>     may neither read, nor write, nor delete without dropping to the
>     command-line.

This bug and the related Finder->NFS bug is keeping us from deploying 
Leopard at work. Apple knows about it, and says they'll fix it... We 
were hoping 10.5.6 would do so.

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