slate-ntfs 0.7.1

slate-ntfs 0.7.1

Warning: limited testing. slate-ntfs has been tested, but only in a limited setting (Ubuntu).
While tested performance has shown to have been very stable, production machine can be risky: a driver bug can corrupt data on the volume.
Keep backups ready.

Highlights

• The kernel module is now called slate-ntfs (loaded as slate_ntfs). The filesystem type stays ntfsrs. Upgrading removes the old ntfs_rs module and its autoload file automatically, and the package now reloads the module reliably on upgrade.
• Faster large reads: read-ahead is now at least 4 MiB per file. In cold reads of a 2 GB file, slate-ntfs and NTFS-3G both read at the limit of the test SSD on its USB link, and the in-kernel driver of Linux 7.1 was about 1% slower in every round. See the README's Benchmarks section.
• Builds against Linux 7.1 as well as older kernels.
• New benchmark: kernel/tests/benchmark_copy.sh times cold reads and copies of one file per driver, against NTFS-3G.

Packages (amd64)

System	File
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.ubuntu26.04_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.ubuntu24.04_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 22.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.linuxmint22.3_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 21.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.linuxmint21.3_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 20.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.1.linuxmint20.3_amd64.deb

The complete source is in slate-ntfs-0.7.1-source.zip.

Install the file for your system:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing
sudo apt install ./slate-ntfs_0.7.1.<system>_amd64.deb

Release_0.7.0: Remove tests and inspection sections from README

slate-ntfs 0.7.0

Warning: limited testing. slate-ntfs has been tested, but only in a limited setting (Ubuntu). While tested performance has
shown to have been very stable, production machine can be risky: a driver bug can corrupt data on the volume.
Keep backups ready.

Highlights

• Wider volume support for writes: clusters from 512 bytes to 2 MiB, 1 KiB or
  4 KiB file records, and 512-byte or 4 KiB sectors.
• Fragmented and large journals: a $LogFile that Windows left in several
  pieces is written and recovered like a contiguous one, up to just under 4 GiB.
• Split $MFT: the mounted driver reads and writes a file table spread over
  several records, and grows it beyond record 0 when needed.
• Windows-forbidden characters in names (" * : < > ? \ |) are stored with
  the WSL private-use convention, so Wine and Proton prefixes work on a normal
  mount.
• Fewer device flushes for namespace-heavy work, faster statfs, and
  directory listings that report file types directly.
• Repair: ntfs-chkdsk --repair now unmounts a read-only mount the mount
  helper left behind before repairing; replay handles torn MFT records.
• License: the project is now MIT. The kernel module is dual MIT/GPL, and the
  upcase table ported from NTFS-3G stays GPL-2.0-or-later. See the README's
  License section.

Packages (amd64)

System	File
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~ubuntu26.04_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~ubuntu24.04_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 22.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~linuxmint22.3_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 21.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~linuxmint21.3_amd64.deb
Linux Mint 20.3	slate-ntfs_0.7.0~linuxmint20.3_amd64.deb

Install the file for your system:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing
sudo apt install ./slate-ntfs_0.7.0~<system>_amd64.deb