On 9/28/26 3:50 AM, Richard W.M. Jones via devel wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le lundi 28 septembre 2026 à 09:15 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones via devel >> a écrit : >>> >>> The kernel documentation doesn't appear to cover anything about the >>> history of these drivers or which one is preferred or what features >>> they offer. It's a very confusing situation. >> >> The history is here: >> https://lwn.net/Articles/1055062/#ntfs >> >> It won’t help you much because the main reason given for a new >> implementation is disatisfaction with the old one, and the new one is >> too new to prove it will be any better on the long term. > > Thanks for finding that article. > > Nothing in there fills me with any confidence. I think we'll continue > to use ntfs-3g in guestfs tools for the foreseeable future.
One advantage to this is that it keeps the inevitable CVEs out of the kernel, and therefore most likely lower severity. Moving oddball (and even non-oddball!) filesystem drivers to fuse has been a topic of discussion for a while... -Eric > Rich. > -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
