The 'exec' mount option is of course supported. In fact it's the default
NTFS-3G option. There are over 80 NTFS-3G mount options. These are NTFS-
3G, FUSE user space, FUSE kernel driver and kernel VFS related. The
NTFS-3G man page documents only the NTFS-3G specific mount options, none
of the other ones like, 'exec'.

The supported mount options always depend on the NTFS-3G version, the
FUSE user space version, FUSE kernel module version and the kernel
version. But users should never neet to know more then perhaps some of
the NTFS-3G specific one and the general kernel options (uid, gid, exec,
suid, etc).

Please also not blame NTFS-3G for the current problem. It is HAL. We tried hard 
to push for a trivial and transparent solution but the HAL maintainer decided 
to make life much harder for everybody:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012366.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012368.html

Notice, how I predicted that the HAL changes will break many distributions:
"See e.g. Danny's recent reverted patch. The next HAL release will break at 
least all Ubuntu and Fedora based distros (about 12 million users) not 
being able to automount NTFS. Again." 

HAL is historically a highly unreliable and confusing solution. Afaik,
much better alternatives are being worked on.

Btw, the latest NTFS-3G release (2009.1.1) has built-in, transparent
UTF-8 support and the locale= option is ignored for filename conversion.
The locale= option didn't work in many cases eve if it was correctly
passed to NTFS-3G (and that is a glibc problem but that's another very
long story).

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