<story><title>Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfeq9gyPWK3yao6cCj7LKeU3vQEDGJ3rKDdcaPNVMQzQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was FAT32. Do Macs support NTFS?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It seems they don&amp;#x27;t out of the box: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&amp;#x2F;236055&amp;#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES-ON-A-MAC&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&amp;#x2F;236055&amp;#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES...&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Since many comments replied with the same thing, I&amp;#x27;ll reply here: I wouldn&amp;#x27;t consider read-only support as support for portable data storage, since that allows you only to send data in one direction. When you want to copy a file from a Mac to a Windows computer, NTFS is not a solution now (out of the box at least), therefore falls pretty short wrt &amp;quot;portable&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   As the person who tested the latest ntfs3 patchset, and had tested
   many of those iterations in the past, I would really like to see
   this *finally* land in Linux 5.14.
  
   However, I get the feeling it&amp;#x27;s not going to make it for 5.14 *or*
   5.15, and it seems like Paragon became discouraged by the lack of
   feedback on the latest revision.
   
   I know that compared to all you awesome folks, I&amp;#x27;m just a lowly
   user, but it&amp;#x27;s been frustrating to see nothing happen for months
   with something that has a seriously high impact for a lot of people.
   
   It&amp;#x27;s a shame, because the ntfs3 driver is miles better than the
   current ntfs one, and is a solid replacement for the unmaintained
   ntfs-3g FUSE implementation.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers. NTFS is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; de facto filesystem for portable data storage, much as I wish an open alternative was there. I hope they speed up the merge of ntfs3 into the mainline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullify88</author><text>exFAT is probably better in terms of cross platform compatibility and addresses a lot of the limitations of FAT while remaining portable.
Since Snow Leopard OS X is able to read and write out the box.
Linux natively supported from kernel 5.4.
Windows supports it from updated XP and onwards.&lt;p&gt;I not sure of Android compatibility though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfeq9gyPWK3yao6cCj7LKeU3vQEDGJ3rKDdcaPNVMQzQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was FAT32. Do Macs support NTFS?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It seems they don&amp;#x27;t out of the box: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&amp;#x2F;236055&amp;#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES-ON-A-MAC&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&amp;#x2F;236055&amp;#x2F;HOW-TO-WRITE-TO-NTFS-DRIVES...&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Since many comments replied with the same thing, I&amp;#x27;ll reply here: I wouldn&amp;#x27;t consider read-only support as support for portable data storage, since that allows you only to send data in one direction. When you want to copy a file from a Mac to a Windows computer, NTFS is not a solution now (out of the box at least), therefore falls pretty short wrt &amp;quot;portable&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   As the person who tested the latest ntfs3 patchset, and had tested
   many of those iterations in the past, I would really like to see
   this *finally* land in Linux 5.14.
  
   However, I get the feeling it&amp;#x27;s not going to make it for 5.14 *or*
   5.15, and it seems like Paragon became discouraged by the lack of
   feedback on the latest revision.
   
   I know that compared to all you awesome folks, I&amp;#x27;m just a lowly
   user, but it&amp;#x27;s been frustrating to see nothing happen for months
   with something that has a seriously high impact for a lot of people.
   
   It&amp;#x27;s a shame, because the ntfs3 driver is miles better than the
   current ntfs one, and is a solid replacement for the unmaintained
   ntfs-3g FUSE implementation.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers. NTFS is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; de facto filesystem for portable data storage, much as I wish an open alternative was there. I hope they speed up the merge of ntfs3 into the mainline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>FAT32 doesn&amp;#x27;t support files bigger than 4GiB, that&amp;#x27;s a huge limitation these days. But I don&amp;#x27;t disagree that calling NTFS &amp;quot;portable&amp;quot; is a bit of a stretch, although hopefully that&amp;#x27;ll change if good quality open source drivers become available.</text></comment>