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. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- _______________________________________________ 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
