grsync handles permissions incorrectly

[BertN45]

I had a working ntfs partition and used it for ubuntu 9.10/10.04/10.10/11.04 and 11.10. I had a windows XP network folder with full permissions set to "system" and my user-id. I used grsync to copy that a subfolder from the network folder to my ntfs partition. unfortunately it had the preserve owner, preserve group and preserve permission ticked.

After the grsync operation my ntfs partition had the following permission settings: owner "root" with permissions to "access files" only. Group and Others had no permissions at all.

It has been impossible to correct the situation manually. Grsync should not have touched the permission of the partition itself, but only the permission of the folder(s) that had been copied into that partition. I assume it took the permission of the main network folder and used that to change the permissions of the partition too, but that is outside the scope of the copy/sync operation.