ntfs3 has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it’s been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven’t had any issues.
It’s not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it’s been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the nocase and windows_names mount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.
It’s r/w, if you specify the filesystem type as ntfs3. I believe if you use just ntfs it’ll be read-only, to mimic the behaviour of the old driver, for compatibility reasons.
ntfs3has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it’s been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven’t had any issues.It’s not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it’s been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the
nocaseandwindows_namesmount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.I would have loved to take that performance before I converted my data drives to ext4, however it’s just inherently not stable.
Sometimes If you have a power loss you have to run chkdsk on Windows to get out of ro mode, no?
There’s no need to run
chkdskfrom Windows, you can runntfsfixdirectly from Linux:sudo ntfsfix /dev/path --clear-dirtyAhh thanks! That’s good to know!
Is this for read-only use? Or is it usable also for modifying files?
It’s r/w, if you specify the filesystem type as
ntfs3. I believe if you use justntfsit’ll be read-only, to mimic the behaviour of the old driver, for compatibility reasons.