The Register
Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.
The code patch containing the new ntfsplus driver was submitted by kernel developer Namjae Jeon. He's one of the top kernel file system boffins – three years ago, he wrote the code that added the ability to repair exFAT volumes to Linux.
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 impose