Well in my opinion you are talking as a very very advanced user, and I'm instead trying to be near to a normal user which dual boots in windows and wants his files available to both windows and ubuntu. (this is what the spec is aimed for, read Use Cases)
I understand that windows forbidden characters is legal in the NTFS filesystem at all. But they are not legal in a normal windows installation, and a normal user does not know what's happening, since these files (without WinSerForUnix, and the normal user does not even know that this software exists and what it is for) cannot be read. I updated my wiki comment to be less misleading, but I think this is still a warning that cannot be ignored You're talking as most applications will not work if the filesystem is not POSIX. I instead think that the problem is different and we could try to answer together to these questions to have a better idea of the most frequent situation: 1) which partition is normally ntfs? My answer: the partition where windows resides and maybe another partition in which documents, videos, music, downloads are stored. For sure not / or $HOME... 2) which applications are normally used over a ntfs partition? My answer: openoffice, gedit, totem, nautilus, rhythmbox, firefox (vim, cat, less, diff, <, > for more advanced users). I cannot think of other apps now. what would not work in these applications if the filesystem is not POSIX? Tell me if I forgot something. Maybe it's not a Microsoft problem... Since we're using their filesystem, we should do the best to not confuse the normal user I told you it was an unexpected change and I was using vfat as a reference because (I think) most normal users were using vfat to exchange files, and now that ntfs3g is out will for sure switch to this. But (I think) they expect it works the same way as vfat, because in windows there is no difference, and because they know they are using a windows filesystem which has restrictions in windows default installation. If it behaves differently they might face lots of problems and most users will not understand which is the problem. My opinion is that there will be more people confused because files are not read by windows than the number of people confused because some apps don't work (since I cannot really think of an application that does not work). At finally, Microsoft doesn't tell normal users that the filesystem restrictions are only for legacy, and that cannot be removed. The user has to discover this by itself. (this was my case, for example) Please tell me what you think of my opinions -- forbidden characters is filenames are allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124480 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