• mean_bean_machine [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The history of NTFS supporting those features is pretty weird. The US military has (or at least had) a legal requirement that any OS they used needed to be POSIX compatible, and as a result the POSIX features in Windows were implemented as a legal loophole so Microsoft could still sell Windows licenses to the military. The POSIX subsystem for Windows predates the Linux subsystem by about 15 years, and as far as I know no software was ever written for it.

      EDIT: It was actually not just the military but the entire federal government that had the requirement, and it actually dates back to the first Windows NT version from 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      is windows compatibility why I can't make use of those features from linux? the fuse driver never preserved file permissions and I haven't tried the new kernel driver.