Bug 214833

Summary:	NTFS3: junctions are not properly resolved
Product:	File System	Reporter:	Artem S. Tashkinov (aros)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	fs_other
Status:	RESOLVED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	high	CC:	enrico.mioso, kari.argillander, vladdrako007
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2209.0/07518.html
Kernel Version:	5.15	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Artem S. Tashkinov 2021-10-26 21:37:59 UTC

The new NTFS3 driver does not properly resolve junctions.


Under ntfs-3g:

lrwxrwxrwx. 2 root root    15 Oct 21 07:59 'Documents and Settings' ->
/mnt/Windows10/Users

a proper working link.


Under ntfs3:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     8 Oct 21 07:59 'Documents and Settings' ->
C:/Users

this and other links, e.g. Users/All Users, Users/Default User, etc. are
all broken.


( This is a repost from https://www.spinics.net/lists/ntfs3/msg00630.html since no one has replied to it ).

Comment 1 Artem S. Tashkinov 2021-10-26 21:39:52 UTC

Konstantin Komarov is not in this bugzilla so I'm CC'ing Enrico Mioso and Kari Argillander

Comment 2 Kari Argillander 2021-10-26 22:49:15 UTC

I have noticed your message. We have lot of bug fixing going on right now so sorry for not replaying.

Thanks for reporting problems. Your problem is real and we need to decide howto handle it.

If you face any more problems be please to send them. Thanks for being early tester for ntfs3.

Comment 3 Artem S. Tashkinov 2021-10-26 22:53:49 UTC

(In reply to Kari Argillander from comment #2)
> I have noticed your message. We have lot of bug fixing going on right now so
> sorry for not replaying.
> 
> Thanks for reporting problems. Your problem is real and we need to decide
> howto handle it.
> 
> If you face any more problems be please to send them. Thanks for being early
> tester for ntfs3.

Thank you for a swift reply!

There's no rush really, I just wanted to be sure my message had been noticed. I may as well close this bug report if it's an annoyance.

Comment 4 Kari Argillander 2021-10-26 22:59:03 UTC

It is ok to be open for now. Maybe somebody else will also report bugs here. We really wan't them now. I'm also quite certain there will be many after 5.15 will be released. Hopefully no corruption bugs.

Comment 5 Artem S. Tashkinov 2022-09-07 08:42:36 UTC

The patch has been posted to LKML and NTFS3 mailing lists.

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2209.0/07518.html