NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Sun Apr 5 23:17:32 CDT 2009


"Chris Robinson" <chris.kcat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not make the default what the filesystem actually is? Eg. if the FS is 
> FAT32, report FAT32; if it's NTFS, report NTFS; if it's a unixfs, report 
> unixfs; etc. The registry/winecfg can then be used to override the per-drive 
> type if it causes problems with certain apps.

The problem with NTFS is that Wine won't support its ioctls in any case,
and that's the real reason why its was changed to unixfs.

-- 
Dmitry.



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