mounting ntfs partition fails if target is symlik

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Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

There is a bug in the version of NTFS-3G that is currently in the Ubuntu 8.04 repositories (1.2216). If a user tries to mount a NTFS partition into a directory that is a symlink, the operation will fail with a "fuse: mount failed: Invalid argument" error message. This is known bug, that has been fixed in version 1.2531 of NTFS-3G.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Confirming, as this is a known bug.

From the release notes:

STABLE Version 1.2531 (May 29, 2008) -- Release Notes

    * Fix: Mount failed with "Invalid argument" error message if the mountpoint was a symlink. If NTFS-3G is compiled with an external FUSE library (non-default on Linux) then FUSE CVS is needed until FUSE 2.8.0 is released.
    * Fix: A corrupted directory could hang the driver.
    * Fix: Mount could hang if the block allocation map was corrupted.
    * Fix: The driver could hang or misbehave when compressed, sparse or encrypted file attribute flags were corrupted.
    * Fix: The driver could crash when both an MFT attribute offset and the allocated bytes were corrupted.
    * Fix: Building the driver failed if the --exec-prefix configure option was used without --sbindir=/sbin.
    * Fix: Parallel 'make install' may failed.
    * New: Support building the driver in a separate directory.
    * New: Added --enable-mount-helper configure option which installs /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g, so mount via mount(8) and /etc/fstab can work on Linux. The default is enabled on Linux and disabled on all other operating systems.

[Thomas Danhorn (tdanhorn)]

Interestingly this exact same problem still persists in (X)ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic (NTFS-3g version 1:2009.4.4. Was it never really fixed or is this a regression??). This is really annoying. Does somebody else experience this as well?