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Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Indeed. But I think some confusion will still remain as long as the ntfs-3g FUSE driver is still included by distros. Because right now, you have to explicitly specify the filesystem type as ntfs3 if you want to use the new in-kernel driver, otherwise it would use ntfs-3g. And most guides on the web still haven't been updated to use ntfs3 in the fstab, so I'm afraid this confusion will continue to persist for some time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've had bad experiences with ntfs3 anyway, so it's probably for the best that ntfs-3g is the default. Also last I checked ntfs3 had effectively been orphaned by paragon (the developers), is that still the case?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

ntfs3 has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it's been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven't had any issues.

It's not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it's been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the nocase and windows_names mount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Is this for read-only use? Or is it usable also for modifying files?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

For me, Steam (on Linux) has been periodically corrupting the ntfs disk, I do use it on windows too and not even win hybrid/fastboot/hibernation disabled helps.

May I see what mount options you use for the ntfs3 driver in fstab? I do not currently have the nocase and windows_names ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I would have loved to take that performance before I converted my data drives to ext4, however it's just inherently not stable.

Sometimes If you have a power loss you have to run chkdsk on Windows to get out of ro mode, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There's no need to run chkdsk from Windows, you can run ntfsfix directly from Linux:

sudo ntfsfix /dev/path --clear-dirty