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

[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.

[intelfx]

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

[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.

[uid313]

I almost never need to access any NTFS disk partition, and when I do the FUSE driver works just fine, so I don't really need this.
It feels like this is a bit late, I wish this was available over a decade ago.

By the way, is anyone working to mainline support for Apple's APFS in the Linux kernel?
I know there was some code on GitHub for APFS support in the Linux kernel, as well as a FUSE driver.

[LinAGKar]

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

I would expect exFAT to be supported by most somewhat recent TVs, as it's becoming the de-facto standard for large external hard-drives and SD cards.

[dragon321]

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

In some (or even most) cases yes but lack of journaling can be quite problematic sometimes. When NTFS support will land in kernel, you will get journaled file system that is supported natively by both operating systems. It would be nice choice for storage.

[starshipeleven]

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.

the developer said that they planned to opensource mkfs and hopefully also fsck utility.

[starshipeleven]

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.

this is a filesystem driver, so no it won't. Gparted is just calling filesystem-specific tool applications to do the actual job. For NTFS it's ntfstools from the ntfs FUSE project.

Afaik they plan to opensource tools as well, but it's not part of the current code.

[starshipeleven]

I would expect exFAT to be supported by most somewhat recent TVs, as it's becoming the de-facto standard for large external hard-drives and SD cards.

It IS the standard for SD cards bigger than 32GB. It's in the acutal specification

[Danny3]

this is a filesystem driver, so no it won't. Gparted is just calling filesystem-specific tool applications to do the actual job. For NTFS it's ntfstools from the ntfs FUSE project.

Afaik they plan to opensource tools as well, but it's not part of the current code.

Ok, but maybe those filesystem specific tools like ntfstools could use this driver in the future when it moves data around the drive like when you resize a NTFS partition and it says that this operation could take a long time because it relocates data.
If they release some open source tools as well that would be great also, but if not, I appreciate anyway what they are doing.