USB 3.1 gen 2 is supported by Linux kernel, thus by mainstream Linux distributions such as recent Ubuntu, openSuSE, Fedora.
Writing to NTFS formatted disk also works fine, in my experience with the above distributions, if you install required software. Does it work at full speed? Probably not because disks are much slower than USB supports. Depending about how modern/fast is your computer and the disk - the slow down from the fact the it is NTFS formatted disk might not matter for the speed of access. That being said, NTFS is native and proprietary to Microsoft. So, there may be limitations to NTFS support on Linux, depending on what you want to do. I have never run into them though. There may be better alternatives for routine file transfer between windows and Linux using network file systems. Depending on the use case. - Tomas On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 09:38 OR Linux Jobs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Portland > > If I understand correctly, USB 3.1 Gen 2 refers to the protocol that > supports 10 Gbps and the USB type C connector. (please correct me if I am > mistaken) > > Is there an existing Linux distribution that supports this? > If not, does anyone have a recommendation or tips for how to proceed with > compiling one that does? > > Second question: If a linux box has a file system such as ext4 or btrfs, > can you copy files from the linux box to an external USB hard drive that is > formatted NTFS? Can you expect the full speed supported for the protocol? > > Sincerely > Neil > e-mail [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
