[SOLVED] NTFS Operation Not Supported (45)

ewok wrote:
Would it be possible to use ext3 on the USB drive? There are utilities that can read ext3 filesystems on Windows boxes.

Unfortunately that's not a great option for me. In the past on Windows XP what you suggest has been a workable (if somewhat inconvenient) solution. However on Windows-7 64-bit I spent quite a bit of time trying to get Ext2IFS or Ext2FSD to work without success. I remember trawling though all sorts of issues including trying to run in Vista compatibility mode. After many wasted hours I came to a dead-end. If you look at the Ext2IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/) and Ext2FSD websites (http://www.ext2fsd.com/?page_id=2), neither solution even claims to support Windows-7 as of now and neither project seems to be being actively worked on recently.

In the event of a complete failure of a Readynas, the last thing that Windows-7 users need is to find that they require an installation of Linux (or to install Ext2IFS on an old XP computer) to even be able to access their USB backup. I understand that you guys are really busy and the last thing your team wants is another bug to add to an already long list (especially on a Sparc platform that you are moving away from), but surely you would agree that it is better for users if the Readynas NTFS functionality simply works as it should. I've spent quite a bit of my own time here and done everything I can here to analyze and pinpoint the bug so at this point it should be as effortless as possible for someone at Netgear to reproduce. I also have some response from the ntfs-3g developers who suggest a solution here:
http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14344

Is there any way that Netgear could please attempt to reproduce and then fix the bug? Perhaps someone could see if this problem can be reproduced on the latest x86 RAIDiator firmware (since perhaps this contains a more recent version of the ntfs-3g package according to http://www.readynas.com/?p=3728). If it works on x86, then there is some hope that applying the same update to Sparc will fix the bug. I would help, but I don't own an x86 Readynas.

After all, backing up to external NTFS drives is functionality that the Readynas is supposed to have supported since RAIDiator version 4 (viewtopic.php?t=15059)? I would think that the main purpose of NTFS support on the Readynas is for backup. And a backup solution that cannot handle Microsoft Office files seems like a fairly important bug that deserves fixing.