Linus Torvalds has approved a request to remove the old NTFS file system driver from the Linux kernel. Starting with release 5.15, the kernel includes a new NTFS3 driver developed and maintained by Paragon Software. Providing two drivers with NTFS implementation in the kernel is impractical, given that the old driver has not been updated for many years, is in a deplorable state and can only work in read mode.
The new NTFS3 driver supports write mode and all the features of the current version of NTFS 3.1, including extended file attributes, access lists (ACLs), data compression mode, effective work with empty spaces in files (sparse) and replaying changes from the log to restore integrity after failures. Removing the old driver should not affect distributions, since, for example, Debian does not build or use NTFS drivers from the kernel at all, but instead offers users an ntfs-3g implementation that runs in user space. Arch Linux uses the new ntfs3 driver by default.
Source: opennet.ru
