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Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Through fuse being the cause of things breaking without my knowledge, I recently discovered a dkms driver for fat32. When using it, I of course get significant performance boosts with fat32 drives- very handy for work with my DSLR.

So, I figured I'd try to find something along the lines of a dkms driver for ntfs file systems for use with my big external hard drive. However, it seems most are dependent on the non-Artix kernel. I'm not keen on whether or not that dependency can be overridden or something somehow.

Anyway, I found one that seemed to be fine dependency wise. While it seemed to install fine, my ntfs drive wasn't mountable.

Before I dig deeper and/or try again so I have access to the logs to post here, is it known whether or not it's possible for this to work with Artix at all? I just thought I'd ask in case there's a known reason ntfs dkms inherently won't work with any Artix system.

Re: Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Reply #1 –
to my knowledge fuse ntfs3g driver is in better state compared to kernel version.

Re: Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Reply #2 –
Ok. I'm assuming the dkms driver performs better than the fuse driver still, no? It's not just a fat32 thing right?

Re: Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Reply #3 –
NTFS-3G is an open source implementation of Microsoft NTFS that includes read and write support (the Linux kernel only supports reading NTFS).

NTFS3-dkms is fully functional NTFS Read-Write driver developed by Paragon Software.
Paragon's driver is significant improvement over the existing NTFS Linux kernel driver.

The existing NTFS driver is basically unmaintained in the kernel and lacks proper write support along with other features, thus ntfs-3g with FUSE often being the more recommended choice. Paragon Software though is looking to mainline their "ntfs3" kernel driver to the mainline kernel and are GPL licensing it for inclusion.
(source : phoronix.com)

How much good will the new driver nobody know yet, so under development and no comparing test available.

Re: Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Reply #4 –
Ok, that clears up a lot.

Re: Is intalling ntfs3-dkms and packages like it possible?

Reply #6 –
You don't need dkms for ntfs-3g, it's a FUSE implementation; it works on any kernel.