Paragon Sends Out Updated NTFS Driver They Want To Mainline For The Linux Kernel

[ThoreauHD]

Sounds like they aren't F'ing around. Props to Paragon. This will help a ton of upstream tech, and the aren't even a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, like those other guys.

[intelfx]

It’s always nice seeing new companies join the Linux kernel community.

[birdie]

ExFAT should also be a good option for this (and for external device support).

Most existing smart TVs support fat and ntfs only. exFat is still relatively new and its support leaves a lot to be desired.

[bemerk]

I'd be interested to see their apple drivers later as well

[You-]

I really hope it will be accepted. There are not many options for common partition file system for Linux and Windows. Yeah, ntfs-3g exists but native driver should perform better than FUSE based.

ExFAT should also be a good option for this (and for external device support).

[Michael]

Does the code drop include utilities like CHKNTFS?
If not can we expect them as well?
An utility to check the integrity of the filesystem and fix errors is what i miss most for NTFS.

FTA - "Paragon has yet to publish their user-space utility code for this driver."

[Nille_kungen]

Does the code drop include utilities like CHKNTFS?
If not can we expect them as well?
An utility to check the integrity of the filesystem and fix errors is what i miss most for NTFS.

[birdie]

Great!
I wasn't too excited about the ExFAT driver, but about this one, I can barely wait to try it.
Hopefully no more performance issues, no more missing dates like the creation one and no more weird difference in bytes sizes between EXT4 and NTFS.
Good job Paragon and thank you very very much!

I'm now curios if Gparted could also benefit from this when creating NTFS partitions or resizing them which sometimes have to move some data around.

Gparted uses ntfsprogs, a part of the ntfs-3g project and no it won't benefit from a native NTFS driver at all.

Lastly, even if this driver gets mainlined we're still missing a crucial piece of the puzzle and that is a good filesystem checker. fsck.ntfs/ntfsck is mostly useless. Speaking frankly fsck.(v)fat terribly sucks as well. In theory someone could make Microsoft's chkdsk work under Linux/Wine but I haven't heard of any recent efforts to make it reality.

[dragon321]

I really hope it will be accepted. There are not many options for common partition file system for Linux and Windows. Yeah, ntfs-3g exists but native driver should perform better than FUSE based.

[Kano]

Very interesting driver, maybe somebody could add a few compat lines to build it for older kernels via dkms. Benchmarks against ntfs-3g would be interesting too, with highend and lowend (Atom like or even Raspberry PI) systems. This driver most likely makes the commerical Tuxera NTFS driver obsolete - as you could use it for embedded devices too - there the fuse overhead is certainly much more important compared to desktop systems.