Paragon NTFS driver might finally make it into Linux
Summary
Unlike FAT, which Microsoft would eventually open up for other users, NTFS has remained proprietary. As Linux kernel developer Nikolay Borisov wrote, "So, how exactly do you expect someone to review this monstrosity?" In other words, the current problems arent so much technical as Paragon is still trying to wrap its mind around how Linux kernel developers work. Still, Paragon has finally confirmed that it "will be maintaining this implementation," but that "well need several days to prepare a proper pull request before sending it to you." Torvalds welcomed this news, though warned: "The one other thing I do want when there are big new pieces like this being added is to ask you to make sure that everything is signed-off properly, and that there is no internal confusion about the GPLv2 inside Paragon, and that any legal people, etc.
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