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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Shaggar posted:

why would an administrator local to one computer be able to access to files of a local administrator on another computer? that would be insecure and stupid.

this is literally correct, ntfs permissions are transparent across the network and will work consistently even if you move disks between machines on the same domain

in fact, imagine the first machine shared the entire disk, someone else on the network made a shortcut to a file on that share, move the disk to a new machine, set up a share which in some arbitrary way includes access to that file, and the user double-clicking that shortcut will find the file on the new share despite the file itself being the only thing they have in common

shaggar was right etc

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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

ntfs does have inherited descriptors as well, but if you invalidate everything (i.e. want to migrate the whole structure) you likely still have to rebuild every descriptor, even if the ones on the files themselves contain little of interest

shouldn't be that common an occurrence anyway

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

apfs sounds good but tbqh i suspect it is the usual engineer stupidity about clean rewrites, where the new thing becomes a mess before it gets all the features and bugfixes necessary to make it a true hfs replacement

hopefully it turns out well but i rather doubt the end user experience will be improved to an extent at all proportional to the effort required

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