From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:20:46 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] group ownership for shared devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98915b10-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > This solution didn't work because groups are specific to the > file server implementing them. Your CPU server doesn't know > about the groups on your file servers and doesn't itself > implement any groups. I'm suffering more 2ed->4ed migration brain damage. After reading through some of the assorted fileserver code I see what you mean. The [m][ug]id fields in stat seem somewhat arbitrary these days. It might be nice if fileservers that just make up [ug]ids to satisfy stat or otherwise ignore permissions returned 'none' or something equivalent in those fields, just as a hint. --lyndon