Hi, as far as I know, up to now, no case of data loss with ntfs-3g was reported at least up to the release of version 1.0
However, I have now heard of at least two cases of data loss, which makes me think that ntfs-3g isn't quite as safe as a 1.0 release ought to be (and I thought it were). The first case was reported on http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/84118/ Quote (Translation below): "Also ich habe mal jetzt den ntfs-3g Treiber gemäß Wiki Anleitung installiert und das Laufwerk erfolgreich gemountet. Bin dann auch mal sofort angefangen den ein oder anderen ID3 Tag zu editieren. Läuft alles problemlos. Nur mußte ich nach einen Neustart gerade festellen das all meine Datein die ich geändert habe, samt der kompletten Ordner in dem sie lagen nicht mehr vorhanden sind! Weder unter Windows noch unter Linux. " Translation: "I installed ntfs-3g according to the instructions in the wiki [wiki.ubuntuusers.de] and mounted it successfully. I started editing some ID3 Tags and it worked all right. After a reboot, I saw that all the files I had edited were gone, and also all the directories in which they lay. Neither Linux nor Windows can read them anymore." The wiki instructions mentioned in this posting also include links to an apt repository with ntfs-3g 1.0, so it's highly probable that this guy used 1.0. The second case was my roommate. He uses OpenSuse 10.2. I set up ntfs-3g for him, including the latest version of FUSE. One day, I moved some 4 GB of MP3s around on his NTFS Partition, and again, many of those just disappeared (hey, can you imagine how stupid and sorry I felt that day?) I'm aware that these reports are probably not very helpful for you to track down those bugs. Yet, I'd like you to put some big fat warnings somewhere. Note that I'm not blaming anyone for this. Shit happens :( Regards Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
