On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:06:26 -0800
Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote:

> I then chowned all the directories to backuppc:www-data. Doing that
> for the external drive took over a day. There's got to be a better
> way for Linux to handle removable media with millions of files. I'd
> read that bindfs can change the effective owner of a drive but it's a
> FUSE filesystem so there's a performance cost.

Since Linux kernel 5.12 you can use ID mapping in mounts:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/705331

BR,
Fabian


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