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 == NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org -- Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
