> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Development <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von
> Joerg Bornemann
> Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Februar 2021 13:36
> An: Elvis Stansvik <[email protected]>
> Cc: Macieira, Thiago <[email protected]>; Qt development mailing
> list <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5
> 
> On 2/24/21 8:54 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 
> > I guess it rules out installing to e.g. a FAT-formatted USB-stick, but
> > I don't know if that's a thing. Could be considered an edge case and
> > documented not to work.
> 
> With https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/336652 a copy is made
> if a hard-link cannot be created.

Right, but that is at configure time, this doesn’t help with the online 
installer. 

If we go down this route, we should arguably check in the online installer 
whether the target folder is on an NTFS partition, and back out if not. One 
more complication ... :/

Regards

Kai

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