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Bug#998627: DKMS NTFS3 with original Kernel drivers



Hi,

Off the record I was starting my own DKMS NTFS3 driver for Linux Kernels from 6.4 here: https://github.com/EasyNetDev/ntfs3-dkms
The idea is simple: use the NTFS3 driver from Linux sources and make it as external compiled module.
But unfortunately who wants to use it, he/she must installed manually on his system.

Also rules is auto detecting which driver versions it has as MIN and MAX to avoid failing build for non present Kernel driver.

I'm using in parallel with ntfs-3g package:

easynet@Ryzen5900X:~/Devel/$ dpkg -l | grep ntfs
ii  libfsntfs-utils                               20200921-2.1+b1                                         amd64        NTFS access library -- Utilities
ii  libfsntfs1t64:amd64                           20200921-2.1+b1                                         amd64        NTFS access library
ii  libntfs-3g89t64:amd64                         1:2022.10.3-3                                           amd64        read/write NTFS driver for FUSE (runtime library)
ii  ntfs-3g                                       1:2022.10.3-3                                           amd64        read/write NTFS driver for FUSE
ii  ntfs3-dkms                                    1.0.10                                                  all          NTFS Read-Write file system support

easynet@Ryzen5900X:~/Devel/$ mount | grep ntfs
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /media/easynet/F23EE5193EE4D79D type ntfs3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2)

easynet@Ryzen5900X:~/Devel/$ uname -a
Linux Ryzen5900X 6.9.12-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.9.12-1 (2024-07-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

easynet@Ryzen5900X:~/Devel/$ sudo dkms status
ntfs3/1.0.10, 6.9.12-amd64, amd64: installed
virtualbox/7.0.16, 6.7.9-amd64, x86_64: installed
virtualbox/7.0.16, 6.9.10-amd64, x86_64: installed
virtualbox/7.0.16, 6.9.12-amd64, x86_64: installed


I will try to build my own Debian / Ubuntu repo.

The idea to split ntfs-3g in 2 packages sounds very good. In this case anybody can choose which driver wants to use.



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