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

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:58:29 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] ntfsplus: ntfs filesystem remake

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.