On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Kai Blin <kai.blin(a)gmail.com> wrote on April 7th:
Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 04:21:37 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
- Implement missing functionality - will most likely be nearly impossible without driver support for special features. Or have to be emulated by Wine (then why not for any other FS?)
We can probably get away with 80% of the apps only using 20% of the features, as usual. I guess that apps are mostly interested in ACLs, which could be mapped to POSIX acls, stored in file attributes or some database or simply faked. Samba does this, I don't see why we couldn't.
Can we use Samba code in Wine to make this a reality?
Samba is GPL3 licensed, so not without relicensing. -- -Austin