diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.8.in b/src/ntfs-3g.8.in
index b6a49fe0..c398a0c1 100644
--- a/src/ntfs-3g.8.in
+++ b/src/ntfs-3g.8.in
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ to, one of \fBnone\fR, \fBwindows\fR or \fBxattr\fR. If the option is set to
 to \fBwindows\fR, then the user can access them just like in Windows (eg. cat
 file:stream). If it's set to \fBxattr\fR, then the named data streams are
 mapped to xattrs and user can manipulate them using \fB{get,set}fattr\fR
-utilities. The default is \fBnone\fR.
+utilities. The default is \fBxattr\fR.
 .TP
 .B debug
 Makes ntfs-3g to not detach from terminal and print a lot of debug output from
diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.c b/src/ntfs-3g.c
index a7b2e579..f5586508 100644
--- a/src/ntfs-3g.c
+++ b/src/ntfs-3g.c
@@ -1678,7 +1678,11 @@ static int ntfs_fuse_init(void)
 	*ctx = (ntfs_fuse_context_t) {
 		.uid = getuid(),
 		.gid = getgid(),
-		.streams = NF_STREAMS_INTERFACE_NONE,
+#if defined(linux)			
+		.streams = NF_STREAMS_INTERFACE_XATTR,
+#else			
+       		.streams = NF_STREAMS_INTERFACE_NONE,
+#endif			
 	};
 	return 0;
 }