On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Kai Blin <kai.b...@gmail.com> wrote on April 7th: >>Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX? >> >>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. >> > Can we use Samba code in Wine to make this a reality?
Samba is GPL3 licensed, so not without relicensing. -- -Austin