Linus Torvalds accepted The composition of the repository in which the future branch of the Linux 5.15 core is formed, Patches With the implementation of the NTFS file system from Paragon Software. The release of the core 5.15 is expected in November. The NTFS driver code was opened by Paragon Software in August last year and is different from the driver’s existing driver in the recording 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 (ACL), data compression mode, efficient work with emptiness in files (SPARSE) and play changes from the journal to restore integrity after failures. Paragon Software confirmed that it was ready to accompany the proposed code in the kernel and plans to further translate the implementation of journaling to work over the Journaling Block Device universal block device in the kernel, on the basis of which journaling in Ext3, EXT4 and OCFS2.