Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?

[Kai Blin]

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.

Cheers,
Kai