Comment 5 for bug 1295030

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Marcos K (g-ubuntu-com-y) wrote : Re: Please backport latest ntfs-3g to precise and trusty

A severe side-effect of the old version (currently used in Ubumtu 14.04) is described at http://askubuntu.com/questions/597815/ntfs-3g-failed-to-decompress-file

Not just inability to access Windows 8 compressed files (or others too?), but leads to a disk space DOS, essentially killing the Linux OS until the mess gets cleaned up.