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Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows
One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software
It turns out symbolic links created on Windows weren't handled correctly with the Linux NTFS3 driver until now, but thanks to adjusting a few dozen lines of code is now addressed. Symlinks using relative paths is another surprising bit that apparently didn't work properly with the NTFS3 driver until now. The NTFS3 pull request for Linux 6.17 also adds sanity checks for file names and some other minor alterations.
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