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Subject: Re: NTFS3 driver is orphan already. What we do?
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net>, 
	Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>, ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, 
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2022-04-28 2:47 GMT+09:00, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
> [ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ]
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander
> <kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net> wrote:
>>
>> I also did suggest that I could co maintain this driver to take burden
>> from
>> Konstantin, but haven't got any replay.
>
> If you are willing to maintain it (and maybe find other like-minded
> people to help you), I think that would certainly be a thing to try.
I can help him.
>
> And if we can find *nobody* that ends up caring and maintaining, then
> I guess we should remove it, rather than end up with *two* effectively
> unmaintained copies of NTFS drivers.
And I'm currently working write support on read-only NTFS(fs/ntfs)
with the goal of being released in a few months. And after that, I am
planning to start working fsck in ntfsprogs in ntfs-3g to solve the
current lack of utility issue.

Thanks!
>
> Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p
>
>            Linus
>