Marcus,
I just became aware of a data loss bug for all win8 / opensuse dual booters.
The only "fix" is for users to turn off a new win8 feature. As the
ntfs-3g maintainer, I will try to incorporate the patch that blocks
mounting of ntfs / fat filesystems if the feature is found to be in
use, but that is just a stop gap solution to stop users from shooting
themselves. Again, the only real solution is for users to disable the
feature in win8.
Is there a way to announce that now instead of waiting for a ntfs-3g
security patch?
See below for details of the bug.
Thanks
Greg
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From: Greg Freemyer
Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Data loss bug for win8 dual booters (including opensuse dual booters)
To: suse
All,
(someone should forward this to the forums if its not already there).
Just a heads up that win8 introduced a (on by default) feature that
can cause data loss for all dual booters. From what I understand, the
only real solution is to disable the feature in win8.
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Linux-and-Windows-8-Fast-Startup-puts-...
There is a opensuse bug:
Bug 798337 - ntfs and fat filesystem corruption with windows 8 systems
- ntfs-3g vfat state saved across shutdowns
But the opensuse solution I suspect will just be to fail mount
attempts if the new win8 cache file is found.
(I'm the volunteer maintainer for the bug, so I have to research
exactly what the best fix is. This affects all versions of opensuse
including factory. Once I have a potential fix, I will make a call
for testers since I don't have a win8 machine to test with).
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