Can we get ntfs-3g 2010.1.16 in Lucid?

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

2010/1/20 stephan <marguet at rutgers.edu>:
> ntfs-3g 2010.1.16 appears to fix some important things.
> 2009.11.14 was already a tremendous improvement in speed and CPU usage.
>
> Why should Lucid stay with 2009.4.4, with its known performance
> problems on full or fragmented disks, and very high CPU usage?
>
> The forums are full of user complaints with regards to NTFS
> (especially on external drives).  In my case upgrading from 2009.4.4
> to 2009.11.14 took transfer of 1.5G to an external NTFS HD from one
> hour (2009.4.4) to less than a minute (2009.11.4).
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1362726
>
> Can we spare everyone the pain and go to 2010.1.16 in the next release?
>
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I'd second this. I've done some (admittedly unscientific) testing
running two VirtualBox VMs concurrently off the same NTFS disk*
(Karmic and Windows 7 on a Lucid host). With 2009.4.4 there was
significant lag; programs and menus took a noticeable time to appear.
After updating to 2010.1.16 both are purring along nicely, even when
the host has disk activity (such as aptitude installing a kernel
update) which previously made a single VM lag.

Considering how trivial it was to install from source it can't be
difficult to include in Lucid? Or do we need to file a request
somewhere?

Jonathon

* I have a couple of reasons for this. One, I can defrag the disk
images as to save space I have them set as dynamic allocation. Two, I
can access the machines in Windows when I have to.