Hi Lehilton,

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lehilton Chaves wrote:

> I've got some problems using ntfs-3g driver. I have created files in the 
> folder named "windows" (lowercase) on a ntfs partition where I have winxp 
> installed. It seems that Windows installed the system in the folder 
> "WINDOWS" (uppercase). When I try to access the files I created in 
> "windows", explorer shows me the contents of the "WINDOWS" folder.

NTFS has several file namespaces: DOS, WIN32, POSIX. Linux, as a POSIX OS, 
always creates files in the POSIX namespace. In such cases the characters 
in the file name are case sensitive and can be anything except '/' and 
'\0'. 

All POSIX application can work perfectly with such files on __Windows__.

If explorer can't handle this then please submit a bug report to its 
developer.

> Also, some time ago I was able to create files with 
> windows-special-characters in the name, for example, I created files with 
> name "c:", which is valid in Linux, but could not access them in Windows.

Same answer as above. The problem is really not on the Linux side. 

The good news is that Microsoft setup a Linux interoperability laboratory 
this year

   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/feb07/02-12RoadmapPR.mspx

and hopefully if enough people complain to them then perhaps they will fix 
these longstanding Windows problems. 

Regards,
                Szaka

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