When discussing the issue of separation of concerns in file system code maintenance and VFS-related drivers, Linus Torvalds expressed his readiness to directly accept patches with the new implementation of the NTFS file system if Paragon Software takes over the duties of NTFS file system maintainer in the Linux kernel and receives confirmation from others core developers who reviewed the correctness of the code (apparently, there are already confirmations).
Linus noted that among the developers of the VFS core there are no people responsible for accepting pull requests with new FS, so such requests can be sent personally to him. In general, Linus hinted that he sees no particular problems with the adoption of the new NTFS code into the core composition of the kernel, since the deplorable state of the old NTFS driver does not hold water, and there were no significant complaints against the new Paragon driver in a year.
During the year, 26 versions of ntfs3 patches were proposed for review on the linux-fsdevel mailing list, in which the comments made were eliminated, but the issue of inclusion in the kernel was stalled in the inability to find a VFS maintainer who could decide on conceptual issues - what to do with the old ntfs driver and whether to implement legacy FAT ioctl calls in the new driver.
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 driver supports all the features of the current version of NTFS 3.1, including extended file attributes, data compression mode, effective work with voids in files, and playback of changes from the log to restore integrity after crashes.
Source: opennet.ru