[SOLVED] NTFS Operation Not Supported (45)

ewok wrote:
We are willing to help, but how stable is this build? Changing ntfs-3g would require a lot of testing from our side, and I'd hate for other users to have problems with their NTFS access.

At this point I am not asking that you even roll this version into RAIDiator. I'm simply asking that you help work directly with the NTFS-3G development team to troubleshoot the issue (at the moment we don't really know where the problem is) and identify a fix. Once this is done we can address the next step of whether or not this should be rolled out to users. Who knows, the problem might not even require a new version of NTFS-3G. We'll never know unless we do some tests.

Regarding stability of newer versions of NTFS-3G, I think this is a question best asked to the NTFS-3G development team (here http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14344) if we determine that a newer version is indeed necessary. Personally, I have been running my X6 with "STABLE Version 2010.8.8 (August 8, 2010)" for a month (compiled with the ACL option enabled) with no new issues (unfortunately it still didn't solve the bug mentioned in this thread, but perhaps a later version might help). I am running an incremental rsync backup running every night to a USB attached NTFS drive so the driver has been exercised a fair amount.

From a user perspective based only on performance I think there is more to gain by upgrading than there is to lose. It seems that upgrading improves NTFS write performance by 48%. The slow NTFS performance together with the error messages has probably dissuaded the vast majority of users from even using NTFS so I doubt there are many users that would even be using NTFS as it currently stands on ReadyNAS devices.