Hi, as it is well known the 2.4 kernel series mixed up the permissions set at mounting for instance vfat and iso9660 partitions: As default all files are marked as executable, creating a problem if you copy them to ext2. One can't change that using umask as removing the executable bit with umask 1 also applies to directories.
My question: Is there any stable 2.4 kernel available (if possible debianized) were this problem is fixed? Somewhere in the 2.5 series new options fmask and dmask where introduced, but they are nor available for 2.4 kernels, or are they? If there are no 2.4 kernels with the problem fixed - are there any workarounds? Put differently: As 2.4 users how do you get around that problem? I want to add, that I already read quite a lot on this question - but I so far never found a working solution. (I actually found mails claiming that the questions was solved in some other threads, but unfortunately I didn't find those threads ...) For your information: I use woody and tested the kernels 2.4.16, 2.4.18 and 2.4.21. Many thanks in advance Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]