Paragon Submits Third Version Of New NTFS Kernel Driver For Linux

[starshipeleven]

I'm Russian and I have applied to work at Paragon's Moscow HQ ~10 years ago. Well, what can I say, it wasn't pleasant. Believe it or not their decision not to take me was based on me "having long hair". Yep, verbatim - the interviewer left the room for a while and I saw what was on the screen of his tablet. This has nothing to do with the quality of their code but shares a glimpse in their internal culture, I believe.

Eh, it's believable. Looking like a rebel or "too independent" would not open much doors in corporate 'murrica either.

Whatever "looking like a rebel" means for the HR person that is screening the candidates anyway. I guess you looked too much like a rebel to them.

Of course none of this is official and in most cases illegal, but they will be looking at your appearence, sex or skin color and use that to judge how good you are as an employee.

It's a good idea to scout preemptively and see how normal workers are, so you can get into the interview looking like one of them to make that crucial "good impression" in the HR morons doing the first screenings.

[Sin2x]

I'm Russian and I have applied to work at Paragon's Moscow HQ ~10 years ago. Well, what can I say, it wasn't pleasant. Believe it or not their decision not to take me was based on me "having long hair". Yep, verbatim - the interviewer left the room for a while and I saw what was on the screen of his tablet. This has nothing to do with the quality of their code but shares a glimpse in their internal culture, I believe.

[starshipeleven]

WinBTRFS is a free, as in beer, simple install? It can be installed from the github page, and also through

choco install winbtrfs

with chocolatey. It just isn't on macOS, and that at least is a legitimate downside.

But getting the 100 lb gorilla, Windos should be enough, honestly. Mac can read and rite ntfs, fat16, fat32, exfat and others.

Mac can't write on NTFS without third party drivers. Paragon and Tuxera offer paid drivers, and there is also a port of the FUSE ntfs driver from Linux

[Slartifartblast]

No. You asked if I've audited the USB drivers.
I didn't think a yes or no answer would have been sufficient for you.

Read the question again, the penny will drop eventually I don't mean drivers.

[dragorth]

To be widely adopted, it needs to work well, and be universally available on all platforms, so included by the vendors or a trivial, free (as in beer) install.

The only one at this time is FAT / FAT32.

WinBTRFS is a free, as in beer, simple install? It can be installed from the github page, and also through

choco install winbtrfs

with chocolatey. It just isn't on macOS, and that at least is a legitimate downside.

But getting the 100 lb gorilla, Windos should be enough, honestly. Mac can read and rite ntfs, fat16, fat32, exfat and others.

[milkylainen]

Am I supposed to be impressed by this ?

No. You asked if I've audited the USB drivers.
I didn't think a yes or no answer would have been sufficient for you.

[JPFSanders]

What the hell is wrong with you? Seriously?
Always the same toxic communication.
Fangs out on every comment.

I never said you could not have the driver?
I only wanted it to pass normal sane vetting,
coming from a government tied organization and being the large blob of code it is.

What is your idea of normal when accepting a large piece of code that a lot of people will trust?

Birdie is here just to suffer, just like a sad boring windows troll can do.

[starshipeleven]

No, Paragon did not submit a blob. NVIDIA/AMDPRO proprietary graphics drivers contain blobs.

Ah come on, is nitpicking on terms all that is left?

Paragon did submit a pretty large patch, and while it should not be called blob, his points remain valid.

Why don't you go back to playing on your Windows PC instead of trolling here for nothing?

[milkylainen]

Linux Foundation is a corporate entity, albeit a non-profit one.

So all the programmers, developers, and maintainers they support should be equally suspect by your logic.

Well yes. Sort of. I'd be suspicious of everybody wanting to add a large codeset that a lot of people would depend on, mainly data integrity and security wise.
If not for anything else, just for the potential risk of just human stupidity. Does not require much to fail, epic style.
Peripheral crap that are mainly targeted towards very specific uses, not as much.
A set of cryptography that would be used by all and everybody, sure. Filesystems, absolutely.

OpenSSL Heartbleed was the addition of heartbeat functionality, one commit style, single, fast-skimmed review by one (I think) person.

[ferry]

Well, there is a BTRFS on Windows, and it is usable. It is based on the ReactOS code base, so not dependent on Linux. On macOS, ZFS works well. There are also indos drivers for ZFS, but it isn't in as great of shape as the macOS port it is based on. Paragon has made an EXT driver for both Windows and macOS, I believe, so what is the real reason these system aren't adopted?

To be widely adopted, it needs to work well, and be universally available on all platforms, so included by the vendors or a trivial, free (as in beer) install.

The only one at this time is FAT / FAT32.