Opened 3 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#17165 closed bug (fixed)
Possible replacement of NTFS driver
| Reported by: | pulkomandy | Owned by: | waddlesplash |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1/beta4 |
| Component: | File Systems/NTFS | Version: | R1/beta3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Our current NTFS driver is a kernel side port of NTFS-3G (Linux driver running in userland). It has some problems.
We have discussed replacing it with other implenentations. Just creating this ticket to keep track of the ideas and discussions in a single place.
One alternative is using Apple's NTFS driver: https://opensource.apple.com/source/ntfs/ (published under APPLE PUBLIC SOURCE LICENSE)
More recently, a new driver has been published by Paragon software under GPLv2 and with plans to introduce it in Linux: https://www.paragon-software.com/us/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → in-progress |
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
| Milestone: | Unscheduled → R1/beta4 |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | in-progress → closed |
NTFS driver glue replaced in hrev55628.
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The problems, as far as I've been able to determine, are largely caused by our glue code being not so great.
NTFS-3G has some glue code to a lower-level version of FUSE that looks much more like a kernel-level FS interface, and it indeed does things kind of differently to the way we do them. I have been meaning to look at rewriting our glue code based instead around that code from NTFS-3G, as well as adding file cache support, because that probably will fix a lot / most of our problems.