[Bug 1295030] Re: Please backport latest ntfs-3g to precise and trusty

[Marcos K]

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.

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Title:
  Please backport latest ntfs-3g to precise and trusty

Status in ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  please update the ntfs-3g packages to the latest version "2014.2.15 (January 23, 2014), 2014.2.15AR.1" in trusty (14.04) and precise (12.04) because trusty's and precise's version is more than one year old.  
  And please update to new ntfs3g versions at the point releases e.g.14.04.1 to get the new features/fixes!

  http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/

  STABLE Version 2014.2.15 (January 23, 2014)

      libntfs: added use of hd library to get the legacy BIOS geometry
      libntfs: switched to /proc/mounts for checking existing mounts
      libntfs: fixed usa checking by ntfsck on 4K sector disks
      libntfs: fixed processing compressed data beyond file size (Windows 8 compliance)
      libntfs: fixed expanding a resident attribute without inserting holes
      libntfs: allow DACLs to not have any ACE
      libntfs: ignore unmapped regions when checking whether sparse
      libntfs: upgraded the Win32 interface for use with ntfsprogs
      ntfsresize: enabled relocating the MFT when shrinking a volume
      ntfsresize: fixed trying to update the MFT and Bitmap on a test run
      ntfsresize: fixed updating all the MFT runs in a relocated MFT
      ntfsresize: set the backup boot sector when the size is reliable
      ntfsresize: reserved a single sector for the backup boot sector
      ntfsundelete: output the modification time when scanning files
      ntfsundelete: ported to Windows
      ntfsclone: fixed wiping fragmented metadata when creating a metadata image
      ntfsclone: allowed cloning a file system despite allocation errors
      ntfsclone: fixed bad copying of the backup boot sector
      ntfsclone: ported to Windows
      ntfsdecrypt: made compatible with libgrypt-1.6

  Thank you for your support!

  Best regards, Bernhard

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