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This NTFS driver was written by Anton Altaparmakov from scratch, supporting all versions of NTFS. It is included in the current development kernels since 2.5.11 and also has a backported version for the latest 2.4 stable kernel. What are the advantages of the new driver compared to the old one?
* Stable: no known problems in the implemented functionality, it's also multi-processor and reentrant safe.
* Supports all NTFS cluster sizes from 512 bytes up to 64 kB. The old driver is limited to maximum 4 kB cluster size.
* Full support for sparse and compressed files also on Windows XP/2003/2000.
* Supports mmap() thus Wine users can start applications from an NTFS partition.
* Still read-only, but with safe file overwrite support on all Windows versions without changes to the file size and if the file is over 1 kB.
* One can setup a loopback device on an NTFS file. TopologiLinux and others use this feature to run Linux from a Windows NTFS partition with full read-write support.
* Much better performance.