Please backport ntfs-3g - fuse-based NTFS filesystem driver from Edgy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Dapper Backports |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Baltix |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas |
Bug Description
Currently there are no reliable way to mount NTFS filesystem in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) as ntfsmount command doesn't not work in Ubuntu Dapper, besides this, read-write support in ntfsmount from ntfsprogs is not reliable (about 50% files can not be copied into NTFS volume, mounted with ntfsmount from ntfsprogs).
The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation Linux NTFS driver which was implemented by the same Linux-NTFS project as ntfsprogs. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, writing compressed files, changing file ownerships and access rights.
Technically it's based on and a major improvement to ntfsmount. The improvements include functionality, reliability, quality and performance enhancements.
As much as I'd love to see this on Dapper, it requires a new FUSE stack.