Stephen: The problem is not Windows but certain Windows softwares which
intentionally ignore such files. NTFS-3G doesn't create files in the
POSIX namespace to annoy people. Actually it's just the opposite! This
way things can "Just Work" on Linux, Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenSolaris, etc. It is for maximum interoperability what all these OSes
support on the file system level, including the Windows operating
system.

If the driver would create files in a limited namespace then tremendous
amount of Linux softwares would break mysteriously, occasionally with
data loss. That would be way much worse than the fake error messages
from some broken Windows softwares which could be easily fixed.

Bye,        Szaka

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NTFS-3G Lead Developer:  http://ntfs-3g.org

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Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS 
partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179910
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