Bug#998627: linux: please enable the new NTFS3 driver in 5.15
- To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, 998627@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#998627: linux: please enable the new NTFS3 driver in 5.15
- From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:27:27 +0200
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- Reply-to: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>, 998627@bugs.debian.org
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Hi,
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 10:25:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 20:58 +0100, lenni_na1 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > are there any news on this?
> >
> > We are now at kernel 5.16 in testing and as far as I can tell the ntfs3
> > driver still hasn't been enabled.
>
> The recent traffic on the ntfs3 list seems to consist of bug reports
> and small fixes, none of them being addressed by the supposed
> maintainer of the filesystem (who last posted at the end of November).
>
> I think that we would be doing our users a disservice by enabling ntfs3
> in this state.
In meanwhile the current state of NTFS3 driver has been discussed
upstream starting in
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/da20d32b-5185-f40b-48b8-2986922d8b25@stargateuniverse.net/
.
Regards,
Salvatore
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