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Hello Martin,
We have gone over the reasons why we will not have exec option set on vfat filesystem with the customer and at this point they get it. I will go over a bit more details on the use case bellow but what we are looking for right now is to have the showexec option added to ntfs support on precise.
Facts:
* The customer has 1000's of pendrive that have already being formated with ether ntfs or vfat.
* The pendrives belong to the individual users and there is very litre to no central management of such penrives.
- This means they are extremely reluctent to consider the option of switching to a diffret file system like lets say UDF
* We need to be able to write and read from the pendrive in Windows and Linux (not only ubuntu)
* Customer is migrating all 80 000 desktops to precise
* The pendrive contains only one partition were all the data is located
Use Case:
We have a bunch of shell scripts that are created and stored in the pendrive and we need to be able to execute them in linux withought having to remount the file system or copy the data to the computer.
On any fat pendrive under Precise we simply change the shell scripts name to end with .com like that we are able to execute them withought any remount etc...
If only we could have a showexec feature with ntfs on precise we would be able to perform the exact same work flow and avoid having to format 1000's of pendrives.
Please let us know how feasable it is to implement the showexec feature for ntfs.
Sincerely
Frederic Masi