Old bug with removable ext4 formatted drives resolved?

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Dear,

glad to see that the ext4 driver project for Windows has been picked up.

I have one question: I’d be happy to test the new ext4fsd version, but before I am proceeding I’d like to ask whether it was possible to address a very annoying bug: In the last version released by Matt Wu, there existed a very nasty and serious bug occurring with removable, ext4 -formatted drives attached to the computer, e.g. via USB or (removable) SATA drives / eSATA.

Basically, in the last driver version of Matt Wu, the directory structure of the previously attached – and then detached - USB device was written to the newly inserted removable drive, overwriting the directory tree structure of the second attached drive. So, the second attached drive showed the directory tree of the first drive and it has not been possible anymore to access data on the second drive.

This happened to me at least once, even in a cross-filesystem-scenario, where the previously attached drive was a NTFS drive and the newly attached drive was ext4-formatted and handled via Matt Wu’s last ext4fsd driver. The entire directory tree of the NTFS drive was written to the ext4 formatted removable drive, resulting in complete data loss of the second formatted drive.

I do not recall if this was the case, but it might be possible, that both drives attached adjacently with the same drive letter.

Does anybody, by chance, know, whether this issue has been addressed?

And, if you may ask yourself, who handles ext4 formatted removable drives? Cinemas do. It is commpnplace to ship movies for cinemas encrypted on ext4 formatted removable drives. If you are going to the movies, you can be pretty sure that the projecting unit runs Linux.

Thank you in advance for any feedback and all best wishes for the further development.