linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] ntfsplus: ntfs filesystem remake

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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:19:09 +0900
From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] ntfsplus: ntfs filesystem remake

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 09:17:54PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > > Why is the rebranding to ntfsplus useful then?
> > >
> > > I can understand that you want a new name for a new ntfsprogs-plus project
> > > which is a fork of ntfs-3g, but I don't think that the new name for the kernel
> > > driver is useful or welcome.
> > Right, I wanted to rebrand ntfsprogs-plus and ntfsplus into a paired
> > set of names. Also, ntfs3 was already used as an alias for ntfs, so I
> > couldn't touch ntfs3 driver without consensus from the fs maintainers.
>
> I think you're adding more confusion than you're removing with the name
> change.  Please, just call it ntfs.  We have hfs and hfsplus already,
> and those refer to different filesystems.  We should just call this ntfs.
Okay, I will change it back to the name "ntfs" in the next version.
Thanks!