On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Ben Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > If I interpret it correctly, the user reporting bug 17938 is trying to > use a native NTFS filesystem with Wine, which we already know is a bad > idea :)
No. The problem is that we _used_ to have NTFS reported as the default file system, but now we use UNIXFS. The user didn't name their file system, but presumably, it's ext3/jfs/xfs/not NTFS. > But his bug raises an interesting issue. If an application has sanity > checks on FAT32 vs NTFS (e.g., I need a 4GB file ... I've detected no > NTFS therefore it's FAT32 which doesn't support more than 2GB files), > then we might just have to make this configurable, possible on a > per-app basis. That's exactly the issue at hand ;-). > My suggestion is a drop-down box in the "Advanced" tab of "Drives" to > control filesystem type (separate from disk type, as is suggested in > Comment #7 on 17938). It shouldn't be important for floppies or even > CD-ROMs, but the options could be: > - Default (autodetect, fall-back to unixfs) > - FAT12 (floppies) > - FAT16 > - FAT32 > - NTFS (probably don't need different versions on NTFS) > Possibly restrict these to CDROM type: > - ISO9660 > - UDF > > Unless someone can come up with a better default than unixfs :) > My idea exactly. -- -Austin
