Post #1254858

2026-04-17 11:49 UTC

I did not see this coming. I thought the “recent” new driver NTFS3 is the ultimate driver. You can bet phoronix will do performance comparisons once it is available in mainstream. Is performance the only reason or are there other technical reasons for creating this new driver?

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@bilouba@jlai.lu 2026-04-17 12:16

From the article: “a better NTFS driver with greater performance and more features over what the NTFS3 driver or other NTFS driver alternatives provides” “full write support, better stability compared to NTFS3 with passing more XFStests, new user-space utilities for FSCK and more, and making use of modern Linux kernel features like IOmap and folio integration.” No idea what most of these words mean 😅 Full write support is great!

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@siha@feddit.uk 2026-04-17 12:19

This four-year-long effort by Namjae Jeon has resulted in full write support, better stability compared to NTFS3 with passing more XFStests, new user-space utilities for FSCK and more, and making use of modern Linux kernel features like IOmap and folio integration. The newer kernel tech integration is better off than the current NTFS3 driver.

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