New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

A new NTFS file-system driver has been submitted for inclusion in Linux 7.1. Developed over four years by veteran kernel developer Namjae Jeon, the driver offers full write support, improved stability over the existing NTFS3 driver (passing more XFStests), new user-space utilities for FSCK, and integration with modern kernel features like IOmap and folio. The driver adds over 36,000 lines of code and has spent two months in Linux-Next for review. Linus Torvalds has yet to confirm the merge, and NTFS3 will remain in the kernel tree regardless.