On 01/12/09 16:29, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: For me, the principal driver is to use native software management tools, particular for driver installation. Native filesystem and volume management is a bonus. Out of curiosity, who's 'we'? Matt -- Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team M: +44 (0)7977 267231 GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490

On 01/12/09 17:26, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: Native on Windows. As far as we're concerned, Windows filesystem access from Linux is not a problem. FWIW, we have only encountered one significant problem, which is that ntfs-3g is case sensitive, whereas Windows (but not ntfs itself) is not. The practical upshot of this is that if you read a path out of a configuration file on a Windows system and then attempt to use it, chances are it won't work because the case is wrong, which Windows doesn't care about. This requires a fairly disgusting hack for munging paths before use on Windows guests. If it were possible to supply a mount option to mount case-insensitive this would be a great help. However, it's not going to help me install a new storage driver without reverse engineering Windows itself. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team M: +44 (0)7977 267231 GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490