(In reply to Linus Kardell from comment #5) > >which exact kernel version are you using with the ntfs3 driver > > I'm on kernel 5.17.2-1-default > > >which (Windows) OS version was used to create the NTFS read data? > > The filesystem was created by Windows 10, but the files were written to it > by ntfs-3g. Don't remember the exact versions. Was the ntfs-3g version performing the write also on tumbleweed, i.e. ~2021.8.22? > >what kind of compression was enabled? NTFS appears to support a few different types > > Not sure exactly, or how to check. I just enabled "Compress this drive to > save disk space" for the file system in Windows, and let it go through the > filesystem and compress the contents. Then I used the "compression" mount > option when mounting with ntfs-3g. Thanks for the extra detail, this should be enough for an attempt at reproducing this.