2024-01-15 20:00 GMT+09:00, Anton Altaparmakov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Matthew, > > On 15/01/2024 07:20, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: >> The replacement, NTFS3, was merged over two years ago. It is now time to >> remove the original from the tree as it is the last user of several APIs, >> and it is not worth changing. > > It was my impression that people are complaining ntfs3 is causing a > whole lot of problems including corrupting people's data. Also, it > appears the maintainer has basically disappeared after it got merged. What can replace this is not only ntfs3 but also ntfs3g. I think read-only ntfs is obsolete. I am in favor of remove it. Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. > > Is it really such a good idea to remove the original ntfs driver which > actually works fine and does not cause any problems when the replacement > is so poor and unmaintained? > > Also, which APIs are you referring to? I can take a look into those. > > Best regards, > > Anton > -- > Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @) > Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/ > Linux NTFS maintainer >
