From what i saw in this forum (and you could be sure that if people had trouble with the new driver, they'll post it here) :
This driver begin to be better & better with time, but it still need some time & testing to be 100% safe.
There were in fact a little problem with the first version (20070714-BETA).
One user reported corruption when deleting some file :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...44#post1284744, since all worked fine for me with deleting (intensive testing), i didn't know what to beleive, and then an other guy report the same type of problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...80#post1336880. After some explication, it appears that before the problem, he was trying to moving directory (non empty) created in windows in the same partition, something i never tried intensivly. So i test it and it appears that they were in fact a problem with moving/renaming file that could explain the 2 problems (see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009&page=27 post 265 & 267). I reported that to Szaka (the dev of ntfs-3g) who release few days after a new version that fix the problem. Since that date, no other problems were reported.
For the high CPU usage, mount.ntfs-3g never go up to 20% for me when creting file/directory, so i don't no what is relly the problem.
The only main problem i see (and a lot of time reported) is that ntfs-3g need a really clean partition, so if the drive were not sanely unmounted (hard reboot, hibernation...), it will fail, and you will need to reboot to windows to solve the problem. But that's not really a problem when you do things sanely
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Now for the AMD64 version. Since the begining, some people try it, with success or not. On guy try to install it via a 32 bit chroot, but apparently it was a bad idea (
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...7#post1290607), an other guy reported success when recompiling it
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...98#post1330498 so i guess it's the way to go. Some gentoo user report success also
And on the main page,
http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?...1_beta20070811 ntfs-3g is set to be avaible for AMD64, so it should work, but i can't support, since i can't test it myself. But if you really want, to recompile ntfs-3g, you will need to get the source:
Code:
apt-get source ntfs-3g
cd ntfs-3g-2007*
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
that will build three package for your system, you will need to install libntfs-3g & ntfs-3g. You will also need to recompile fuse (from my repo). And also hal (from my repo) if you want the patched version that support fuse.
That's it for today
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