NTFS in Linux 5.15 | What it Means for Linux

Better NTFS support is headed our way... Let's go over all the changes!

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[gwgux]

Well that's a surprise. Good on them! I haven't had to access NTFS from Linux in many years, but it's good to see the power of open source at work. XD

[CosmoHQ]

Me : Converts My Game Library to ext4 (which took hell)

8 days later : Linus tarvalds implements proper NTFS support into the Linux kernel

[alexberezin]

This is HUGE, Chris! Thanks for that, didn't know. A lot of my stuff is on NTFS drives for compatibility. And it seems kernels 5.13+ started having issues with that (unconfirmed, but presumed). If 5.15 introduces such a leap of support, I'll just stay on my old kernel until this rolls out in full. Very good news!

[LeDragoX]

Yahoo, Dualboot games with wine/proton/dxvk finally will get a more proper driver compatibility.
Start playing on Windows, then continue playing on Linux, on the exact same place, imagine that...but with less bugs and a bunch of improvements on NTFS* performance.
I know, this is an extreme use case, but i'm going to test that.

[lattice.d]

Paragon is nice, especially for running various drives in alternate OSes.

[OpenSourceSlayer]

Heck yeah, this is pretty nice. Would be nice to share drives for games. Currently running 9tb of SSD on my rig due to dual boot.

[lattice.d]

Nice addition, especially to people coming from Windows to Linux and have their drives loaded into NTFS.

[MegaManNeo]

It'd be amazing if this new drivers actually lets us mount NTFS Steam drives for Linux.

[TanuKart]

I didn't know it was that much of a problem. I've been accessing NTFS everyday for years with no problem

[Insightfill]

I hope the performance picks up. The FUSE implementation is brutal on the CPU of lower-end hardware.

[markkoops]

Paragon software makes great ntfs drivers for Mac. I've used them since snow leopard.
Learning they did this is awesome

[abhitruechamp]

Linux: Supported NTFS, now will support it even better.
Windows: EXT4 support? Ha.

[therealrickychii]

nice video Chris, I'm also excited for this release.

[emerson-biggons]

I hope! This means games like Black Ops 3, or even Roblox will be able to function on my ntfs drives without reinstalling everything twice on other drives.

[sanderhulsman-mk]

so much for ntfs on linux then. I trust this author's advise as i have not been able to use ntfs on linux indeed. It worked not for long even for connecting my camera to the linux os through an usb to camera wire,

[tohur]

I run windows in KVM with GPU Passthrough and the VM has a physical SSD and HDD and I sometimes have them mounted in Linux to transfer files when the vm is off so this will make things easier for sure

[siddharthasarmah]

this i a really good feature for me bcoz i dual boot and i have to access my ntfs drives all the time and it just a mess to do that. but if this fixes all that, that would be pretty rad

[wcdeich]

Will this allow us to create a Linux install with NTFS as the primary partition file system?

[micleh]

Has Microsoft been interested in providing an NTFS driver since the launch of wsl? With so much effort and improvement for wsl2, I was expecting that a more robust and performant exchange between Windows and Linux was key to Microsoft. Or doesn't the VM layer make that necessary?

[kmemz]

I wonder if Paragon will also open up their EXTx filesystem drivers for windows, then.