[aklug] Re: ntfs-3g: NTFS != Windows

Top-posting to preserve thread order ...

Ah, good point, Mike!

Other than this little landmine, I've been using these two NTFS drives
exclusively from Ubuntu from the past two years, and have had no
problems at all. There's probably some overhead that could be avoided
by using a more-native-to-Linux filesystem, but that's only a gut
feeling not backed up by any numbers.

Royce

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Royce,
>
> Besides the gotcha's below, anything else?
>
> Have your experiences been positive outside this issue?
>
> Mike B.
>
> Quoting Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>:
>
>> Lazy, so just pasting in some tweets. Learning this the hard way was
>> a big, nasty surprise. Tuxera claims that their goal is "Windows
>> interoperability", but in their support forums, they defend this
>> default as "Hey, we're adhering to the NTFS spec, and Microsoft
>> isn't." While I respect the technical accuracy of the stance, that's
>> not what interoperability is about.
>>
>> Tweets tell the story:
>>
>> 1. w/o 'windows_names' mount option, ntfs-3g allows ':' in filenames,
>> which Windows chkdsk will delete as invalid. Ugly.
>>
>> 2. @tuxeraUSA Please consider making the 'windows_names' mount option
>> the default for ntfs-3g. Not doing so violates POLA.
>>
>> 3. @tuxeraUSA IOW, "Why can't I create files w/colons?" a better
>> default user experience than "Why did chkdsk delete my files?"
>>
>> 4. Common filenames w/colons include email files w/subject lines (Re:,
>> FW:, etc.) and Maildir files. Also, glad I had backups.
>>
>>
>> Royce
>>
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