Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek a écrit : Michael, Please keep the Cc: list intact when replying. On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:01:00PM +0200, Michael Fritscher wrote: From my POV, the question is not whether ntfs-3g 1.0.0 should be included in etch (it won't

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Michael Fritscher
Package: ntfs-3g Version: 1:0.0.0+20061031-6 Severity: critical Tags: etch,sid,patch This version is clearly stated as BETA as in http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html . This version can cause huge data loss, expecially if the volume is very fragmented (fix: a bug in chkdsk could result the removal of

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This software is available in experimental state. Who knows if 1.0.0. doesn't suffer of such critical bugs ? It's too recent to be included in a Debian stable release, morever, have you experiencied any issue with this ntfs-3g version ? I don't

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:41:39PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: This software is available in experimental state. Who knows if 1.0.0. doesn't suffer of such critical bugs ? It's too recent to be included in a Debian stable release, morever, have you experiencied any issue with this

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek a écrit : On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:41:39PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: This software is available in experimental state. Who knows if 1.0.0. doesn't suffer of such critical bugs ? It's too recent to be included in a

Bug#417622: Fwd: Re: Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions]

2007-04-03 Thread Michael Fritscher
It killed already files for me and others. It is mentioned in the forum, too: http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?t=170highlight= Another problem is that unmounting was asyncron in these early versions, which can cause data loss, too. So I strongly advise to drop this package, if you don't

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Steve Langasek a écrit : On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:41:39PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Contact debian-release if you have some serious reason to request ntfs-3g 1.0.0. inclusion into etch. From my POV, the

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Michael, Please keep the Cc: list intact when replying. On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:01:00PM +0200, Michael Fritscher wrote: From my POV, the question is not whether ntfs-3g 1.0.0 should be included in etch (it won't be), but whether the risk of this data loss is significant enough that we

Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions

2007-04-03 Thread Paul Hampson
Steve Langasek wrote: Michael, Please keep the Cc: list intact when replying. On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:01:00PM +0200, Michael Fritscher wrote: From my POV, the question is not whether ntfs-3g 1.0.0 should be included in etch (it won't be), but whether the risk of this data loss is