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There’s an official statement here: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/ https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/ Reading be
by ch_123 5y ago
There’s an official statement here:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/ https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/
Reading between the lines, I suspect that the effort of maintaining an out-of-tree file system outweighed any money to be made from selling NTFS support to Linux users, especially when ntfs-3g is probably good enough for many use cases. They have a lot of other products, and it’s possible that some of them leverage this NTFS support as well.
- m4rtink 5y agoAnything out of the kernel source tree is pain in the ass for many reasons, ranging from a nuisance to impossible to use due to tainted kernel nullifying OS vendor support guarantees.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoThis was my main question: What does this solve that ntfs-3g doesn't? I thought issues with NTFS on linux were a thing of the past.
- jpgvm 5y agoPerformance. FUSE filesystems are cool but not really native in the same way an implementation like this is.
- xoa 5y agoAnd "performance" here isn't some single digit percentage niggling either, it's something like a 4x difference. Enough to genuinely be a pretty big deal for any usage beyond minimal and occasional "get some data off this fs once" type of usage. Of course really the answer is that Microsoft should just adopt Lundman's efforts and add native OpenZFS support to Windows but in the mean time... ;).