Torvalds doesn't think this will happen, but the Linux kernel team has been unpleasantly surprised before. The last thing we want to see is some 'oops, we didn't mean to do this' brouhaha six months later.'

are all aware of this all and are on board. Torvalds welcomed this news, though warned: 'The one other thing I do want when there are big new pieces like this being added is to ask you to make sure that everything is signed-off properly, and that there is no internal confusion about the GPLv2 inside Paragon, and that any legal people, etc. Still, Paragon has finally confirmed that it 'will be maintaining this implementation,' but that 'we'll need several days to prepare a proper pull request before sending it to you.' In other words, the current problems aren't so much technical as Paragon is still trying to wrap its mind around how Linux kernel developers work. But, as Linus Torvalds pointed out, it would help if Paragon would, you know, 'actually submit it.' And, 'Paragon should just make a git pull request for it.' After more than two dozen revisions, the code appears to be almost ready for prime time. The older Captive NTFS driver is more fully featured, but no longer maintained.īut Paragon has been slowly addressing these problems. The NTFS-3G, which works with the filesystem in userspace (FUSE), is notoriously slow. True, there are Linux NTFS drivers, but they have fundamental problems.

With NTFS support, Linux users can use attaching external NTFS drives or boot Windows PCs into Linux for troubleshooting. Still, there is a real need for this code.

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