[Bug 17776] Installing on Fat32 partitions seems to be impossible nowadays

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17776





--- Comment #8 from Ben Anderson <roothorick at new.rr.com>  2009-05-06 19:41:41 ---
Twelve Sky (http://12-sky.aeriagames.com/) exhibits this problem.

Based on a discussion in freenode #winehq, I'm now fairly confident that this
is NOT a regression in Wine, but a regression in the Linux kernel FAT support.
It looks like a regression in Wine because with an earlier Wine in an earlier
kernel it worked, but not now. As early as 1.1.5 are showing this bug. Easy
test -- what kernel were you running when it worked? Try using 1.1.20 under
that kernel, see what happens.

Specfically -- and this is a guess -- I think stat() is returning different
values for files not yet committed to disk. IShield sees this, and assumes it's
being silently denied access to certain features when in fact what it wanted
actually happened, it's just being hidden due to this bug. A workaround would
be to sync() before stat() calls, but that will have a SEVERE impact on
performance.

I'm gonna try NTFS via NTFS-3G, see if it happens there. If not, I'm switching.


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