Comment 43 for bug 392204

I've backported ntfs-3g 2010.8.8 and fuse 2.8.4 from Maverick (took them from http://packages.ubuntu.com)
and now it looks like the system doesn't freeze anymore, but the performance is vastly lower than it was with
the original Jaunty packages. I had xfer speeds like 6.5 MB/sec when moving from ext3 to ntfs, now I only have 2.5MB/sec. :( I yet have to check how Transmission behaves now on huge torrents.

For anyone interested how to backport the packages, do the following:

1. Go to packages.ubuntu.com, find the most recent package, copy the link for the .dsc file for it
2. Run:

dget <the_copied_URL>
dpkg-source -x <filename.dsc>
cd <package_source_dir>
dch -i

3. Edit the log
4. Run:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Usually this goes smoothly enough. It may require some additional packages, but it's quite obvious how to resolve such issues. :)