Linus Torvalds accepted into the repository, which forms the future branch of the Linux 5.15 kernel, patches with the implementation of the NTFS file system from Paragon Software. The release of kernel 5.15 is expected in November. The code for the new NTFS driver was opened by Paragon Software in August last year and differs from the driver already in the kernel by the ability to work in write mode. The old driver has not been updated for many years and is in a deplorable state.
The new driver supports all the features of the current version of NTFS 3.1, including extended file attributes, access lists (ACLs), data compression mode, effective work with voids in files (sparse), and playback of changes from the log to restore integrity after failures. Paragon Software has confirmed that it is ready to maintain the proposed code in the kernel and plans to further transfer the implementation of journaling to work on top of the JBD (Journaling block device) available in the kernel, on the basis of which journaling is organized in ext3, ext4 and OCFS2.
Source: opennet.ru