2009/4/6 Kornél Pál <kornel...@gmail.com>: > Alexandre Julliard wrote: >> Remco <remc...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Chris Robinson <chris.k...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sunday 05 April 2009 5:35:36 pm Ben Klein wrote: >>>>> My suggestion is a drop-down box in the "Advanced" tab of "Drives" to >>>>> control filesystem type >>>> Why not make the default what the filesystem actually is? >>> Another option is to actually implement the NTFS-specific features of >>> Windows, and call it NTFS. >> >> That's actually the only viable option since there are apps that expect >> NTFS. We can't require users to change the fs type depending on which >> app they want to run. > > I belive that having an option to specify fs type is still required as well > because on Windows you are able to create FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS partitions > that results in different behavior and functionality. Those behaviors could > depend on the fs type setting.
Implementing NTFS-specific features in Wine would also fix it (though it may not be possible, let alone easy). Then the default FS type could switch back to NTFS instead of unixfs.
