On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein(a)gmail.com> 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