Comment 1 for bug 124480
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| Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka) wrote Re: forbidden characters is filenames are allowed | #1 |
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From ntfs-3g upstream: this bug report is invalid.
NTFS has several file namespaces: DOS, WIN32, POSIX. Linux, as a POSIX OS,
always creates files in the POSIX namespace. Characters in the file name
can be anything except '/' and '\0'. These files are accessible via the WIN
API on Windows only if they don't have "forbidden" characters. To handle
these files on Windows, the same way as on Linux, one needs to install the
Windows Services for Unix (SFU) freely available Microsoft package.
In sort, everything behaves as it was designed. No problem on Linux and all
the files are accessible if SFU is installed on Windows.
If a non-posix file namespace handling is desirable on Linux then I suggest
exporting the NTFS volume via Samba which should have support for
restricting the file namespace to the WIN32 or DOS one.
Thank you for the report, the question will be added to the ntfs-3g support
page.