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.
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.