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fdupoux / fsarchiver

file system archiver for linux
http://www.fsarchiver.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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NTFS3 support? #123

Closed k8ieone closed 1 year ago

k8ieone commented 1 year ago

Hi, I recently had to use fsarchiver for migrating Windows to an SSD for someone. I noticed all the warnings and disclaimers about NTFS support being experimental. When saving the archive I even had files with errors, so I think those warnings are justified :) I don't know if that backup will even boot, but we'll see.

To my point now. I noticed fsarchiver uses NTFS-3G as its "driver" for accessing and creating NTFS filesystems. I know NTFS-3G has many issues (mainly performance). Since Linux 5.15, a kernel driver called NTFS3 has been merged. I was wondering if using that instead of NTFS-3G could help with the speed but mainly reliability of fsarchiver on NTFS.

fdupoux commented 1 year ago

No there is no plan to add support for NTFS at this stage, it would take a lot of effort.

tuxslack commented 9 months ago

Waiting for NTFS support.

I want to test fsarchiver on Windows 11.

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/