On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:18:05 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:41:29AM +0200, BW wrote: > > Is NTFS3 still not available, not even in Debian 12? After so long? > > Please don't be patronizing and think you now better than the users and > > decide what they need and don't. > > This is Linux, users are capable of deciding if this is useable for them or > > not. > > I don't think any will use NTFS as a production file-system on Linux! So > > don't use any excuse of missing utils or it is not stable. NTFS-3G is not > > stable and useable as production FS either. > > NTFS3 will for the huge majority of users be used in a utility-context, > > e.g. accessing/grapping files from a disk from a MS box etc. > > Please make it available > > No it is not available even in Debian 12; Unless paragon-software show > to be active more on their subsystem. Or let's say "maybe for trixie > it will be made available at some point". With a highlight on "maybe". > > There is not enough confidence that it is well maintained upstream. > Additionally a stream of CVEs would have affected bookworm if we would > have enabled it. So, while not written in stone, it was the right > decision to not enable it for Debian 12. > > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=ntfs3 (gives a rough > overview) > > And the story around fs/ntfs* and Debian requiring to mark it as > broken (cf. > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/becaca2c809a9c8eeb45287d3ecc5c572cc49733 ) > should not be needed to be repeated. > > Regards, > Salvatore > > Hello,
Paragon-software is active enough on their subsystem, and NTFS3 is extremely stable now. Please consider enabling the NTFS3 driver for sid. Thinks and best regards, Littlewhite
