NTFS

History

6.11

NTFS now supports FileAttr changes with chattr command, good time to talk about how good NTFS3 support is nowadays. [1]

and you can also add the  "compressed" and "immutable" attribute to files [2]

6.17

NTFS3 driver now handle symlinks that are created under windows. it also now supports creating symlinks with relative paths. [3]

6.19

NTFS3 Now supports Pre-1970 Timestamps.

We know that Unix time starts on January 1st 1970 but NTFS wasn't made for Unix time.

It was possible for a valid NTFS file to have a timestamp from earlier than this limit.

The internal code of the driver couldn't manage these timestamp but the rewritten code allows for negative integers thus Pre-1970 timestamp.[4]

Sources:

  1. : NTFS Driver For Linux 6.11 Prepares FileAttr Support, Bug Fixes - Phoronix

  2. : The rest of the 6.11 merge window [LWN.net]

  3. : https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NTFS3-Correct-Symlinks

  4. : https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-NTFS3