New NTFS Read-Write Driver from Paragon Merged to Linux Kernel

Does anyone know what confluence of events or motives made this land now? I'm grateful for their work--just curious why a commercial software company decided to make its main capability available for free.

And ksmbd is in Linus&#x27; tree.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;?id=e24c567b7ecff1c8b6023a10d7f78256cef742c4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin...</a>

I’d love to know once this is merged and has journaling if there are advantages to use NTFS instead of ext4 or other file systems as your main Linux FS, versus interop with windows drives.

Does this mean we can boot Windows and Linux from the same partition? Just point the EFI boot-loader at a different kernel image for each? Or does NTFS not support mixed NT-style and Unix-style file permissions on the same partition.<p>Or does the Linux kernel refuse to boot from NTFS, because Linux people hate anything with a Microsoft smell?

Now all that&#x27;s left is for Microsoft to add EXT support to NT.

Looking forward to testing this out with games installed in my Windows partition. Hopefully won’t need to have a dedicated partition for Linux games anymore.

Is this as big of a deal as it seems?