Thank you for the extra information. In the meantime I have installed a version based on kernel 2.6.35.14, and I can confirm your findings.
This version refuses to fallback on fuse protocol 7.8 (an old version which has all ntfs-3g needs except Posix ACLs and ioctl support). It apparently requires at least 7.9. This is strange, because my current kernel (3.10.4) accepts falling back to 7.8. So, I have to get more details about the fuse minimal fallback version for each fuse version. In the meantime, I suggest the attached patch which sets the fallback version as 7.9, unless the kernel only supports an earlier version in which case the fallback is set to the kernel version. Regards Jean-Pierre
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