1 Would I benefit from installing NTFS-3G through Entware and using that for mounting rather than Fuse?
2. If I need to change the mounting options for the drives i.e. to use NTFS-3G or add the user_xattr to the options do add the commands to autostart.fs?
Your right about NTFS-3G being fuse based, however after mulling it over I am going with the if it isn’t broke don’t fix it method I would only ever need ntfs-3g if I needed to install ntfs-3g-utils and if that ever happens I can manually unmount and remount the drive.
Plus the drives are only NTFS because of my older lower power box that didn’t support ext4 that well and the N2+ does so when the budget permits I will have to get another hard drive and use that to migrate the drives one by one to ext4.
Worth the time I spent doing it for the increase in file access times plus “shake” is on Entware now and while its not the best its handy to use for drives that get a lot of use once a month.