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Any news on NTFS ?

NTFS-3g is pretty good and support on Linux is definitely a lot better than it used to be. Still, official (or officially supported/documented) support would be really nice.

Honestly I hope even Windows abandons NTFS soon. It's the worst part of using Windows. e.g. Try and develop any Node project on Windows and it's painful - takes literally minutes to delete the node_modules folder whereas on Linux/Mac it takes seconds. It only recently got long pathname support (260+ chars long)...

On the other side, file ACLs in NTFS are way more powerful than the Linux owner-group-world model.

That's true. But NTFS could also improve rather than simply adopting Linux's filesystems. Heck they could improve it then Open Source the new thing.

I think ReFS was supposed to be the next-gen version of NTFS, but it never really got much use.

You can use posix acls whenever you want though.

Posix acls aren't particularly nice though. RichACLs is what I'd love but they're not merged :(

Linux NTFS support is useful for that. It doesn't support them so you can just access/nuke any files you want through it even if Windows won't let you.

That's true of every file system if you're willing to boot into a different OS instance.

NTFS itself has had support for long paths for at least 17 years (with the prefix \\?\)

It's not a problem with NTFS and switching to another filesystem won't help. It's the classic "death from a thousand papercuts". The only way to mitigate performance issues is to bypass most of their I/O stack altogether, like they did with WSL2.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

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