I am not aware of issues with the host file-system due to Wubi use, if
you do please feel free to open a bug report (and copy ntfs-3g).
What may happen is the opposite, the _guest_ filesystem may become
unbootable after an abrupt shutdown, because a data loss for the host
may result in a loss of journal for the guest. Because of that, the ntfs
driver has been patched and it is mounted in a way (sync-io) which makes
the writes to the host file system almost immediate. Since then I
haven't seen any report of _guest_ file system corruption as a result of
abrupt shutdown. Yet another issue is that if your windows filesystem is
dirty (because for instance you didn't shut down cleanly from Windows)
then (depending on the version of ntfs-3g) you might not be able to boot
into ubuntu until you clean your filesystem, again this is not a case of
Wubi damaging the host file system, the issue is that fsck for ntfs is
not available in linux, although more recent incarnations of ntfs-3g
should be able to cope with simpler cases.
Please note that abrupt shutdowns are unhealthy, and may end up damaging
your file system, but this will happen whether you use Wubi or not, a
simple web search can confirm that.
** Changed in: wubi
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: umenu
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428195
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