As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around [1]the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!

Linux developer Namjae Jeon has been overhauling the original NTFS kernel driver the past four years with its cleaner codebase to add write support, provide better support, and implement more modern features compared to the NTFS3 driver that merged a few years ago to the mainline kernel and has rather stagnated since that point.

Following this week's pull request for landing that new/overhauled NTFS driver, at first Linus Torvalds un-pulled the code after discovering issues in how the pull request was laid out in Git. But, fortunately, Namjae Jeon sent a revised pull request that met Torvalds' standards.

As of tonight, the new driver is merged. See [2]this Git merge for more details on the benefits of the new driver. Or as Linus Torvalds puts it, the "ntfs resurrection."

At least for now the NTFS3 driver is staying in-tree This new modern driver can be enabled via the NTFS_FS Kconfig switch for those wanting to try this new NTFS Linux driver implementation.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cdd4dc3aebeab43a72ce0bc2b5bab6f0a80b97a5