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by p_l 715 days ago
I was thinking more of "ntfs.sys encounters filesystem structure with names set for normally unnamed attributes".

The API preventing arbitrary messing up is a separate (and good and valid) concern.

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> I was thinking more of "ntfs.sys encounters filesystem structure with names set for normally unnamed attributes".

From reading the source code of the Linux kernel NTFS driver (the ntfs3 one in the latest Linux kernel, not the older one it replaced), its (pretty reasonable) strategy is just to ignore things it doesn't expect. But I don't know what ntfs.sys does in such a scenario, I've never tried.