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Sorry, I meant NTFS. That requires a "system extension" AFAIK -- is this not the same thing as a kernel extension?
by chatmasta 7y ago
Sorry, I meant NTFS. That requires a "system extension" AFAIK -- is this not the same thing as a kernel extension?
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoA̶F̶A̶I̶K̶ ̶n̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶j̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶r̶d̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ ̶N̶T̶F̶S̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶k̶e̶x̶t̶s̶. Edit: I'm completely, totally, and utterly wrong, don't mind me.
- SyneRyder 7y agoBoth Tuxera NTFS and Paragon NTFS are kernel extensions.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoTuxera is a kernel extension? I have Tuxera installed right now, and there's no kext for it in /Library/Extensions. I also could have sworn Tuxera was FUSE based... Edit: Oh, but it shows up in `sudo kextstat`. Okay, I'm completely wrong then. I was wondering how a FUSE filesystem could have such good performance...
- SyneRyder 7y agoYeah, I was going by Tuxera's website FAQ that has an answer for "I'm Getting A System Extension Blocked Message During Installation". Didn't actually check for the kexts myself, so thanks for verifying. A macOS without Tuxera NTFS and Parallels Desktop is going to be really problematic for me, but presumably Apple will find workarounds for them. I already switched back to Windows a year ago anyway.
- comex 7y agoNot all kext functionality is deprecated (yet), only things that have userland replacements. Filesystems are not deprecated.
- kccqzy 7y agoMerely formatting a drive as NTFS only requires a user space program to write to /dev/rdiskN. Only mounting the formatted drive as a file system requires a kext.