I’m running EndeavourOS and Windows 11. Each OS is on a separate disk, but I have a data disk that is currently NTFS that mount in both OSes. NTFS causes problems for some things in Linux, and I’m worried it’ll bork the drive for windows eventually, so I’m keen to find an alternative. I’ve read about the WinBTRFS driver so wondering if that is a better way to go?

I don’t want to run a server with a share to access this data because it is way to slow for my needs.

  • mub@lemmy.mlOP
    6·
    2 months ago

    sounds like my worries about NTFS reliability in Linux are more about historic reputation so I can probably relax on that front. The other issue with NTFS is performance in Linux is not great. FAT32 and exFat don’t like some filename characters from linux from what I read.

    WinBTRFS is tempting. I have frequent backups so I might just give it a try and see what happens.

    • LeFantome
      6·
      2 months ago

      The NTFS3 driver in the kernel is about as fast as Ext4 ( and faster than Btrfs ).

    • anon5621@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      Fuse driver of ntfs-3g yes it’s slow but if configurate to use ntfs3 it’s same fast as in windows

      • mub@lemmy.mlOP
        3·
        2 months ago

        Didn’t know about ntfs3 so did some reading about it. There are some reports of corruptions, they were all fixed by letting windows do a chkdsk, and making sure the windows_names parameter when mounting the disk helped prevent problems.

        I’m going to live with ntfs3 for a while as see what happens.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      I use NTFS with Linux a lot, and have for years. The only issue I’ve ever had was Linux not being able to recover it properly after unsafely disconnecting it, but Windows fixed it just fine