On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Ben Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/6 Chris Robinson <[email protected]>: >> On Sunday 05 April 2009 6:01:15 pm Ben Klein wrote: >>> Isn't that more-or-less what I suggested? >>> >>> The biggest problem would be detecting what filesystem a given >>> directory is on (noting that wine's "drives" are not even mounted >>> partitions). Expert parsing of /etc/mtab would indicate it on Linux >>> systems (and BSD?) but Solaris has a violently different mtab system. >> >> HAL shows the information pretty well. It shows the block device, it's mount >> point, and it's fstype. AFAIK, Wine already uses it to determine the >> available >> CD/floppy drives to use. > > That might be fine for mount points and mountable devices, but how > could you accurately determine the filesystem type for an arbitrary > directory like $HOME/.wine/drive_c?
Like was already said, default to UNIXFS if unknown. The important thing is that the OPTION be available to change the FS type for apps that need it. -- -Austin
