windows `ImDisk` `RamDisk` not supported

[shemeshg]

windows `ImDisk` `RamDisk` not supported

[ChrisDenton]

ImDisk doesn't properly integrate with the system mount manager so some Windows API functions will return errors when querying the drive. In particular this is a problem for canonicalize.

I had thought nushell had worked around this when it stopped relying on canonicalizing paths but it seems not.

[fdncred]

We would accept a PR to fix this. I have no idea what's going on here.

[fdncred]

We use canonicalize pretty heavily, so that may be the problem.

[devyn]

Is there any big reason why we shouldn't just replace most cases of canonicalize with expand_path?

It seems like that tends to reflect user intent more often, and avoids issues like this where you can do a lot of filesystem operations on paths but they don't actually exist in any kind of normal form.

[fdncred]

@devyn Have you seen this? Maybe it's a better approach? #12978

[devyn]

@fdncred oh yeah, that looks great! Thanks for pointing that out to me. I think figuring out something even if it's a bit more complex that better reflects user intent and works more often is good