One of the surprises this year in the Linux kernel world was Paragon Software wanting to upstream their “NTFS3” kernel driver that supports read-write operations on Microsoft NTFS file-systems and is much more full-featured than the existing read-focused NTFS kernel driver or the user-space NTFS FUSE driver. The driver hasn’t yet been mainlined but continues to be updated in preparing for that milestone…

Source: Phoronix – The New NTFS Linux Driver Updated With Better Compression Handling