A severe side-effect of the old version (currently used in Ubumtu 14.04) is described at http://askubuntu.com/questions/597815/ntfs-3g-failed-to- decompress-file
Not just inability to access Windows 8 compressed files (or others too?), but leads to a disk space DOS, essentially killing the Linux OS until the mess gets cleaned up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295030 Title: Please backport latest ntfs-3g to precise and trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/+bug/1295030/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
