Not to bring up a (probably) long-dead subject, but...

[Dustin Navea]

I was looking thru the archives of WWN and found this:

Tony Lambregts submitted a patch that added a new filesystem type:

Some program (VirtualDub) checks the fsname returned by GetVolumeInformation,
to find the name of the file system, when it needs to write files that are
larger than 2GB. It refuses to create the file when we return FAT but will
successfully write the file when NTSF is returned. 

Change Log: add configuration option to report NTFS as the file system type
for a drive. 

Mike Hearn thought it might just be a good idea to always return NTFS if
asked. Andreas Mohr disagreed and felt the whole concept was flawed:

-snip-
> From there the discussion delved into exactly what type of filesystems
> Windows knows about. There was some speculation on exactly how and when they
> differ. For example, what type of filesystem is reported on DVD's? Tony
> summed it up:

So we The way I see it Windows knows about the following file systems. CDFS,
FAT, FAT23, NTFS and HPFS. 

HPFS is irrelevent. 
CDFS covers all CD like Media. 
FAT will deal with all drives less that 2 GB. 
NTFS can be used with drive over 10MB. 
FAT32 can be ignored. 

-end-

I just figured that you should know that the best bet would be to have wine
return vfat instead of fat or ntfs, as fat == fat16 which has a 2 GB limit,
while vfat == fat32 which has a 4 GB limit..  This is actually referenced on
microsoft's website (although I couldnt give you the exact address) and can
also be found on winnetmag.com thru google..

As always I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me with any replies..

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