Re: ntfs filesystem

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hello Dante,

I must be confused. I know about the different types of filesystems
that can be made and mounted on the Linux VFS, but doesn't Wine allow
you to specify in the ./wine/wine.conf the filesystem type?

In Windows NT for example, the user can assign permissions in a
similar way that Linux allows. the same is true for Windows 2000 and
I suspect for Windows XP as well.

So this is really related to wine and how it interacts with the
psuedo filesystem. Is this correct?

Cheers,
Lonnie
> Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Hello Again All,
> >
> > I just had another thought and was wondering if someone was
> > working on the NTFS filesystem for Wine?
> >
> > I am guessing that this is what is being used in the Windows2000
> > and Windows XP as well, right?
>
> I believe at least in 2k, you had an option,
> but this is a moot point since filesystem layer code is outside
> the  realm of wine ..
> this is done by the host operating system.
> There is a ntfs fs project for linux :
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
>
> --Dante

ntfs filesystem

[DanteAliegri]

Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello Dante,
>
> I must be confused. I know about the different types of filesystems
> that can be made and mounted on the Linux VFS, but doesn't Wine allow
> you to specify in the ./wine/wine.conf the filesystem type?

yes.
> In Windows NT for example, the user can assign permissions in a
> similar way that Linux allows. the same is true for Windows 2000 and
> I suspect for Windows XP as well.

since they all ( can ) use ntfs, yes.
> So this is really related to wine and how it interacts with the
> psuedo filesystem. Is this correct?

I'd suppose so. so if one was to add "ntfs" as an option.
it would just guarentee that permissions and such was written.
the primary problem atm, is that the ntfs write support in the actual 
VFS layer
is very experimental.
After that you would have to deal with translating unix username/groups 
into ntfs ones.
> Cheers,
> Lonnie