Re: Bug#417622: NTFS-3g way too old, can cause data corrumption in rare conditions
Michael,
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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 should consider dropping ntfs-3g from etch altogether for
> > the
> > sake of our users' data. Since ntfs-3g didn't ship with any previous
> > release, and has no reverse-dependencies in etch, it doesn't seem
> > unreasonable to drop it from the release, and that seems to be in keeping
> > with our policy of treating data loss bugs with the highest severity?
> It killed already files for me and others.
> It is mentioned in the forum, too:
> http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?t=170&highlight=
> 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 want to update it.
That's certainly persuasive to me. Adam, is there any hope of a targetted
fix for these issues described, or are users really just safer if we drop
the package from etch?
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