Why is NTFS-3g so bad in Etch?

[regomodo]

I'm confused at why there is no package for ntfs-3g in Debian Etch. I'd thought it would be a crucial one to have.

You can compile from source but it's not recommended. I did so but under heavy load i lose communication to my ntfs drive and can't get it back until a reboot. This happens every time. Say, rdiff-backup (backup from), mysql, and image processing.

It is not a major issue for me as i've had enough of these bugs and going to format to ext3.

Anybody have any idea?

[polmir]

add to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

apt-get update

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys IDXXXXXXX
gpg --armor --export IDXXXXXXX | sudo apt-key add -

apt-get update

apt-cache search ntfs-3g

libntfs-3g-dev - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library headerslibntfs-3g2 - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library
ntfs-3g - read-write NTFS driver for FUSE

apt-get install ntfs-3g

[regomodo]

ah, that looks a lot better than what i had found so far. Using old packages people had made using checkinstall.

I had seen the backports repo but i was always under the impression you had to edit the apt-preferences file to set the priorities of each.

I don't have a proper ntfs partition any more but cheers for the help anyway.

[dptxp]

It is not advisable to write to NTFS from Linux.

[p_quarles]

It is not advisable to write to NTFS from Linux.
It's not advisable to make statements advising against something that is commonly done without backing it up.

[dptxp]

I may be wrong as I use FAT 32 only. But this is based on all the information I collected from internet while choosing between NTFS and FAT32 for Window$.
One link is here-
http://manual.sidux.com/en/hw-dev-hw-dri-en.htm#hd-ntfs3g
Maybe Ubuntu handles it safe.

But then we use so many things regularly without problems though they carry warnings.

[markharding557]

i think you should upgrade to debian lenny this is much more up to date and if you want to make it almost as solid as etch you can lock the kernel version so it can't be changed unless you want it to