2009/4/6 Chris Robinson <chris.kcat(a)gmail.com>:
On Sunday 05 April 2009 5:35:36 pm Ben Klein wrote:
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 :)
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.
Isn't that more-or-less what I suggested? The biggest problem would be detecting what filesystem a given directory is on (noting that wine's "drives" are not even mounted partitions). Expert parsing of /etc/mtab would indicate it on Linux systems (and BSD?) but Solaris has a violently different mtab system. 2009/4/6 Remco <remco47(a)gmail.com>:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat(a)gmail.com> wrote: Another option is to actually implement the NTFS-specific features of Windows, and call it NTFS.
This doesn't sound trivial, if it's possible at all ;)