The New NTFS Driver Looks Like It Will Finally Be Ready With Linux 5.15

[ququk]

It was commercial product so they are deciding not to earn money from this anymore. And initially they were trying to offer their implementation of exfat (read only at that time). Hopefully we now have great implementation of exfat from samsung and great implementation of ntfs by paradox.

[gnarlin]

Great, still don't understand the reasoning why the open source it, but am very happy with it. Making the world a better place

Because maintaining a giant file system patchset out of tree is a huge pain in the ass and you don't get the benefit of any large scale testing or vetting that mainline gets.

[peterdk]

Great, still don't understand the reasoning why the open source it, but am very happy with it. Making the world a better place

[Danny3]

Finally !
This is wonderful news.
Many thanks to Paragon, Linus, and everyone involved !

[doublez13]

Nice! It'll be pretty sweet to have a proper NTFS driver in the kernel when the Steam Deck launches.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The New NTFS Driver Looks Like It Will Finally Be Ready With Linux 5.15

It's looking like the new NTFS file-system kernel driver developed by Paragon Software and over the past year revised more than two dozen times could be ready for mainlining in the kernel in about one month's time when the Linux 5.15 merge window opens. Everything is finally aligning and looking like the code is in good enough shape for its initial merging though not necessarily replacing the existing NTFS driver at this point...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=New-NTFS-Likely-For-Linux-5.15