"NTFSplus is an unexpected development because for about four years now, the Linux kernel has contained a read-write NTFS driver. It's called ntfs3 and it appeared in kernel 5.15 back in November 2021. It's called NTFS3 because it effectively replaced the old ntfs driver, which just offered read-only support, and ntfs-3g which works via FUSE - meaning that it runs as an ordinary, unprivileged userspace program, which imposes performance and other limitations."
"The GPL ntfs3 driver was donated to the kernel by Konstantin Komarov, whose company Paragon Software sells multiple commercial drive management tools, including drivers to allow read-write access to pretty much any combination of Mac, Linux, and Windows drives from Windows, Linux, or macOS. In other words, he has a demanding day job - and six months after NTFS3 was merged, concerns emerged that Komarov wasn't able to maintain it. One of the people who responded then was Namjae Jeon, who said:"
Namjae Jeon submitted a code patch introducing the ntfsplus in-kernel NTFS driver. The Linux kernel has contained the read-write ntfs3 driver since kernel 5.15 (November 2021). Ntfs3 replaced the old read-only ntfs and user-space ntfs-3g (FUSE) implementations. Konstantin Komarov donated the GPL ntfs3 driver; Paragon Software provides commercial drive tools. Maintenance concerns arose about ntfs3 after its merge. Ntfsplus modernizes the legacy read-only driver by replacing buffer heads with iomap and operating on folios rather than pages. Ntfsplus currently lacks full NTFS journaling support; journal-replay exists but is not yet reliable.
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