ntfs3 versus ntfs-3g, mount options

[George N. White III]

Using an external drive formatted on a Windows system:

# mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt -o windows_names,uid=$UID,gid=$GID
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

dmesg has: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'

The drive ends up mounted using the old fuse ntfs-3g.'

Plugin the drive and go to Files, the drive is listed and I can mount it,
but I see the same dmesg entry and the drive is mounted with fuse.

My workaround was to add an entry in fstab:
UUID=99999999999999  /Volumes/WindowsBackup ntfs3
defaults,noauto,user,uid=9999,gid=9999  0   0

The "Disks" benchmark shows similar read rates, but average access time
goes from 23 on ntfs-3g to 18 msec using ntfs3.

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George N. White III