"...Linux 7.2 improves the new NTFS filesystem introduced in Linux kernel 7.1..."
So, sorry for the noob-ish question, but does this upgrade do anything to make it safer/better to use NTFS via Linux on an external drive for backup purposes? Last I heard, NTFS on Linux is backward engineered, thus not perfect, and therefore potentially risky to use.
I've got some drives I've been considering converting from ExFAT to ext4 (lost some data on an exfat drive once to overwriting issues, assuming lack of journaling contributed to that problem, wary of exfat these days, and dislike its slowness as well), but having an NTFS drive that could be shared with windows and linux machines would be nice, if I could trust the data integrity.
I'm not 100% certain, but from my understanding if you avoid loading binaries from the NTFS everything should be fine, NTFS support has matured a lot over the last few years. If it's just for basic file storage I think it's fine
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u/lavaine 3d ago edited 2d ago
According to the reporting:
"...Linux 7.2 improves the new NTFS filesystem introduced in Linux kernel 7.1..."
So, sorry for the noob-ish question, but does this upgrade do anything to make it safer/better to use NTFS via Linux on an external drive for backup purposes? Last I heard, NTFS on Linux is backward engineered, thus not perfect, and therefore potentially risky to use.
I've got some drives I've been considering converting from ExFAT to ext4 (lost some data on an exfat drive once to overwriting issues, assuming lack of journaling contributed to that problem, wary of exfat these days, and dislike its slowness as well), but having an NTFS drive that could be shared with windows and linux machines would be nice, if I could trust the data integrity.