Reply to post: Re: re-thinking the priorities of including this NTFS driver in the base kernel

Linux kernel maintainers tear Paragon a new one after firm submits read-write NTFS driver in 27,000 lines of code

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: re-thinking the priorities of including this NTFS driver in the base kernel

"but... as a FUSE driver, I'd gladly welcome a really good NTFS file system driver as an add-on package! I think the major distro maintainers would, too. And a FUSE driver should work with FreeBSD (and the other BSD's) and so on."

My only real use case is if/when I need to format or access larger pendrives or USB hard drives that are too big for FAT32. The FUSE ntfs-3g driver on FreeBSD has worked without exception for me so far. I believe it's also available on Linux too. No one yet seems to have posted an argument for actually having NTFS support in the kernel.

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