Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 unable to access devices touched by ntfs-3g versions prior to 2010.1.16

Some correction to the bug report from the NTFS-3G developers:

1. It is not true that "Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 unable to access devices touched by ntfs-3g versions prior to 2010.1.16". Just try and you will see that all of them will see the NTFS partition fine. The fact is that there is a slight chance in a very special case that this will happen. How often? Perhaps once in 10 million cases.

2. It is not true that NTFS-3G created volumes can not be accessed on Windows. NTFS-3G doesn't create NTFS volumes, it's mkntfs from the ntfsprogs package which does. Nevertheless we are not aware that mkntfs has any problem you mention.

I put this on... I am more than pleased :)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560685,
http://people.debian.org/~biebl/ntfs-3g/

I think an update would be very usefull, too.

Dabien unstable has already a package: http://packages.debian.org/sid/ntfs-3g
The changelog can be found e.g. here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/

This bug was fixed in the package ntfs-3g - 1:2010.3.6-1ubuntu1

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ntfs-3g (1:2010.3.6-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian (LP: #513197). Remaining changes:
    - Install to /bin and /lib rather than /usr/bin and /usr/lib.
    - Create libntfs3g75-udeb and ntfs-3g-udeb packages.
    - Build with external FUSE and pre-depend on fuse-utils.
    - Copy ntfs-3g into the initramfs. If ntfs-3g is used to mount the root
      filesystem (either directly or via a loopback mount), load the fuse
      module beforehand, and save ntfs-3g's PID (indirectly) in
      /var/run/sendsigs.omit.
    - Add a symlink for the mount.ntfs manpage.
    - Ensure ntfs-3g flushes dirty write data back to device. Add ntfs-3g
      mount option "syncio" which opens the underlying filesystem used by
      fuse with O_SYNC to ensure dirty write data is written back to ntfs
      immediately. This allows us to remove the vm.dirty sysctl hacks from
      wubi.
    - Fix "no_detatch" -> "no_detach" typo in HAL fdi file.
  * Fix from upstream in 2010.3.6: Make non-resident TXF_DATA attribute of
    root directory resident so Vista and later won’t complain about RAW
    partition (LP: #514223).

ntfs-3g (1:2010.3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ack previous NMU, thanks Michael.
  * New upstream release (Closes: #573462).
  * Update library package name from libntfs-3g73 to libntfs-3g75.
  * Update changes/ChangeLog for latest upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4.

ntfs-3g (1:2010.1.16-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload with Adam's consent.
  * New upstream release. (Closes: #560685)
  * Fix watch file.
  * Update library package name from libntfs-3g54 to libntfs-3g73.
  * Update changes/ChangeLog for latest upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No further changes.
  * debian/ntfs-3g.links: Create a symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to
    /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g. This way ntfs-3g is used as default driver for
    ntfs file systems. (Closes: #554599)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:24:31 +0000