On Wednesday 10 October 2007 11:34:55 wine-bugs@winehq.org wrote:
Taking this to the mailing list, as it shouldn't be discussed on the bug.
Vitaliy: what functionality specifically do you need from ntfs-3g? Shared writable mmap support indeed needs an extra kernel patch which is not in mainline yet but we are not aware of any other widely needed feature. We're developing ntfs-3g, so people can run application directly from NTFS using wine.
Szabolcs, the biggest reason why we don't tell people to run applications from an NTFS partition is not strictly a technical one but just the fact that people then try to run applications they installed under windows. This will fail for almost every application that depends on certain registry entries being created by the install process.
I don't know what other features Vitaly was talking about. Perhaps you can elaborate on that here, Vitaly?
Cheers, Kai