[nextaccountic]

> And nothing's stopping someone installing NTFS functionality with apt.

This would be wildly slow (if it runs in userspace using FUSE)

The good thing is that the kernel still includes a (better) ntfs driver

> This removes the old ntfs driver. The new ntfs3 driver is a full replacement that was merged over two years ago.

[tux3]

>This would be wildly slow (if it runs in userspace using FUSE)

NTFS-3G through FUSE is what most people are using. It's slower, but not that slow.

ntfs3 hasn't seen that much large-scale deployment, and you don't have to look very far to find people complaining about ending up with a messed up filesystem from it. I'd put a very modest level of trust in it not eating your data.

[marcosdumay]

FUSE drivers are slow, but "wildly slow" is an overstatement.

Anyway, between FUSE, epoll, DMA, and userspace networking Linux is already enough of a microkernel to benefit from it; so when do our CPU oligopolists plan to turn their shared memory hardware into a useful message passing mechanism?

[RunningDroid]

> FUSE drivers are slow, but "wildly slow" is an overstatement.

I can confirm this, I've played RPGMaker M{V,Z} games natively by swapping out the copy of NWJS¹ it shipped with and running it through a CIOPFS² mount.

1: https://nwjs.io/

2: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/ciopfs/ / https://github.com/martanne/ciopfs

[TimeBearingDown]

FUSE is what I’d call “quite slow”, but FUSE passthrough might finally land for Linux 6.9. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Passthrough-In-6.9-Next

I don’t have the exact benchmark used to produce the numbers in the article, though. It may be in the half hour video.

[GauntletWizard]

You can install kernel modules with APT - You can even install source code for kernel modules that live outside-of-tree that are recompiled for your system with APT[1]

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS