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Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by tomc1985 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:56PM (#24172335)
Paragon, purveyors of fine commercial filesystem drivers that corrupt my hard drives? LOL
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by mehrdadn on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:49PM (#24173108)
It's easy to laugh at them but I've had corruptions from Linux's existing NTFS implementation too.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by tomc1985 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @10:41PM (#24174439)
I've had issues with their Windows HFS+ driver too, shit wiped out a hard drive that I later learned wasn't fully backed up
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by mehrdada on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:36PM (#24174803)
+1 had the same issue with their HFS+ driver, and it did not take that long to encounter it.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by booi on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:04PM (#24173555)
Isn't Linux's existing NTFS implementation read-only? I'd be very surprised you would get corruptions from that..
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by SXX on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:11PM (#24173601)
FUSE one is not just read-only. It had capacity to do write on NTFS partitiona for decade at least.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by booi on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:03PM (#24183458)
That’s FUSE which is in userspace. The kernel driver is read-only. I believe it never progressed past that due to licensing issues.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by SXX on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:22AM (#24186957)
I know what FUSE driver is, but my educated guess would be that almost no one ever used in-tree kernel-space driver which you referring to. So when people talking about issues with old driver that's almost certainly NTFS-3g
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by brendawalsh on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:07PM (#24173898)
But, it is FUSE.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by bluejekyll on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:47AM (#24175210)
Am I correct in saying that there shouldn’t be any reason that being FUSE would in and of itself cause corruption?

Performance is a different question, since it’s not in kernel.

Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by brongondwana on Sunday August 16, 2020 @02:45AM (#24175787)
Off the top of my head... ordering violations. FUSE has a lot less control about the exact order in which things get written to disk, meaning that you are more likely to wind up with the wrong parts having committed down first if there's a crash.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by Quekid5 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:13PM (#24172447)
I guess it's not that surprising really[0], but it is quite amusing in combination with the company name.

[0] If you tie your company's worth to a proprietary technology.

Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver by nailer on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:52AM (#24184679)
I mean the thread is they're open sourcing their work (if by commercial you mean proprietary).