[tomek@vz]

One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system.

The NTFS3 driver will now handle symlinks created on NTFS partitions under Windows. It turns out symbolic links created on Windows weren't handled correctly with the Linux NTFS3 driver until now, but thanks to adjusting a few dozen lines of code is now addressed.

> Phoronix