Comment 74 for bug 392204

I've recently switched over from Windows to Ubuntu (11.10) and was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why two programs we're hanging and being very unresponsive (Filezilla and VirtualBox). Turns out that it was that I was running them off a NTFS partition (and therefore having ntfs-3g taking 70-100+% of CPU as others have said). I switched them to run off a non-NTFS partition and the transfers in FileZilla (when they worked) jumped from about 5KB/s total to 1,600 KB/s.

Personal anecdote aside, I agree that this bug should be listed a lot higher than medium. For people that have recently switched from Windows and still regularly work with files on their Windows partition it is a huge headache when everything is slow to respond. Not to mention that it's been known since 2009 so isn't it time we fixed it? I would try myself but I don't know enough to even know where to start, however I hope someone else fixes it soon!