Photo Credit: Pexels The well-known Linus Torvalds spoke on the matter recently in a thread opened by Kari Argillander concerning the topic, who contributed patches to the NTFS3 driver and also offered himself as a co-maintainer. Of course Linus would be easy if Kari took care of it, as would any other interested developer:
If you're willing to take care of it (and maybe find other like-minded people to help you), I think it would certainly be a thing to do. try. And if we can't find anyone who ends up taking care of its maintenance, then I believe we should remove it, rather than end up with two actually unmaintained copies of NTFS drivers. Not that two unmaintained filesystems are much worse than one :-p
Photo Credit: Unsplash The focus on the NTFS3 driver, however, has also led to a re-emergence of interest in the previous NTFS driver for Linux. In particular, developer Namjae Jeon, as reported by Phoronix colleagues, said: "I am currently working on writing support on NTFS (fs / ntfs) with the aim of being released in a few months. And after that, I'm going to start working on fsck in ntfsprogs in ntfs-3g to solve the current problem of the lack of utilities ".