<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
NTFS	B-Application
file	I-Application
system	I-Application
with	O
read/write	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
often	O
uses	O
the	O
FUSE	B-Application
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
interface	I-Application
,	O
so	O
it	O
can	O
run	O
unmodified	O
on	O
many	O
different	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
runnable	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
FreeBSD	B-Operating_System
,	O
NetBSD	B-Device
,	O
OpenSolaris	B-Application
,	O
illumos	B-Application
,	O
BeOS	B-Application
,	O
QNX	B-Operating_System
,	O
WinCE	B-Operating_System
,	O
Nucleus	B-Operating_System
,	O
VxWorks	B-Operating_System
,	O
Haiku	B-Language
,	O
MorphOS	B-Operating_System
,	O
Minix	B-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
and	O
OpenBSD	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
a	O
partial	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
ntfsprogs	B-Language
and	O
is	O
under	O
active	O
maintenance	O
and	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
was	O
introduced	O
by	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
senior	O
Linux	B-Application
NTFS	B-Application
developers	O
,	O
Szabolcs	O
Szakacsits	O
,	O
in	O
July	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
developers	O
of	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
later	O
formed	O
a	O
company	O
,	O
Tuxera	O
Inc.	O
,	O
to	O
further	O
develop	O
the	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
is	O
now	O
the	O
free	O
"	O
community	O
edition	O
"	O
,	O
while	O
Tuxera	O
NTFS	B-Application
is	O
the	O
proprietary	O
version	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2021	O
,	O
Linus	O
Torvalds	O
merged	O
a	O
different	O
NTFS	B-Application
implementation	O
called	O
NTFS3	O
into	O
the	O
Linux	B-Application
kernel	O
5.15	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
supports	O
all	O
operations	O
for	O
writing	O
files	O
:	O
files	O
of	O
any	O
size	O
can	O
be	O
created	O
,	O
modified	O
,	O
renamed	O
,	O
moved	O
,	O
or	O
deleted	O
on	O
NTFS	B-Application
partitions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS	B-Application
partitions	O
are	O
mounted	B-Application
using	O
the	O
Filesystem	B-Application
in	I-Application
Userspace	I-Application
(	O
FUSE	B-Application
)	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
supports	O
hard	B-Application
links	I-Application
,	O
symbolic	B-Application
links	I-Application
,	O
and	O
junctions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
help	O
of	O
NTFS	B-Application
reparse	I-Application
point	I-Application
plugins	O
,	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
made	O
to	O
read	O
chunk-deduplicated	O
files	O
,	O
system-compressed	O
files	O
,	O
and	O
OneDrive	B-Application
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
provides	O
complete	O
support	O
and	O
translation	O
of	O
NTFS	B-Application
access	O
control	O
list	O
(	O
ACL	O
)	O
to	O
POSIX	O
ACL	O
permissions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
its	O
website	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
offers	O
customized	O
versions	O
as	O
Tuxera	O
NTFS	B-Application
for	O
Embedded	O
Systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
supports	O
partial	O
NTFS	B-Application
journaling	B-Application
,	O
so	O
if	O
an	O
unexpected	O
computer	O
failure	O
leaves	O
the	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
in	O
an	O
inconsistent	O
state	O
,	O
the	O
volume	O
can	O
be	O
repaired	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
2009	O
,	O
a	O
volume	O
having	O
an	O
unclean	O
journal	O
file	O
is	O
recovered	O
and	O
mounted	B-Application
by	O
default	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
Microsoft	O
thus	O
also	O
provided	O
insight	O
into	O
the	O
specification	O
of	O
exFAT	O
,	O
Tuxera	O
was	O
able	O
to	O
develop	O
the	O
driver	B-Application
Tuxera	O
exFAT	O
for	O
Embedded	O
Systems	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
NTFS	B-Application
,	O
which	O
is	O
offered	O
to	O
commercial	O
customers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Benchmarks	O
show	O
that	O
the	O
driver	B-Application
's	O
performance	O
via	O
FUSE	B-Application
is	O
comparable	O
to	O
that	O
of	O
other	O
filesystems	B-Application
 '	O
drivers	O
in-kernel	O
,	O
provided	O
that	O
the	O
CPU	O
is	O
powerful	O
enough	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tuxera	O
sells	O
optimized	O
versions	O
of	O
the	O
driver	B-Application
that	O
claims	O
to	O
have	O
improved	O
CPU	O
utilization	O
for	O
embedded	O
systems	O
and	O
macOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
slowness	O
of	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
(	O
and	O
FUSE	B-Application
in	O
general	O
)	O
on	O
embedded	O
systems	O
is	O
attributed	O
to	O
the	O
frequent	O
context	B-Operating_System
switching	I-Operating_System
associated	O
with	O
FUSE	B-Application
calls	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
open-source	B-Application
methods	O
provided	O
to	O
reduce	O
this	O
overhead	O
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
underlying	O
FUSE	B-Application
layer	O
has	O
an	O
option	O
called	O
to	O
use	O
larger	O
blocks	O
when	O
writing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
a	O
larger	O
block	O
means	O
fewer	O
context	B-Operating_System
switches	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
also	O
a	O
Linux	B-Application
kernel	O
option	O
called	O
to	O
reduce	O
the	O
writes	O
on	O
file	B-Application
access	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Synology	B-Operating_System
Inc	I-Operating_System
.	I-Operating_System
uses	O
a	O
modified	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
on	O
their	O
NAS	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
replaces	O
the	O
ntfs-3g	B-Application
inode	O
caching	O
with	O
a	O
different	O
mechanism	O
with	O
unclear	O
benefits	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
forked	O
from	O
the	O
Linux-NTFS	O
project	O
on	O
October	O
31	O
,	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
February	O
21	O
,	O
2007	O
,	O
Szabolcs	O
Szakacsits	O
announced	O
"	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
open-source	B-Application
,	O
freely	O
available	O
,	O
stable	O
read/write	O
NTFS	B-Application
driver	B-Application
,	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
1.0.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
October	O
5	O
,	O
2009	O
,	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
for	O
Mac	O
was	O
brought	O
under	O
the	O
auspices	O
of	O
Tuxera	O
Ltd	O
.	O
and	O
a	O
proprietary	O
version	O
called	O
Tuxera	O
NTFS	B-Application
for	O
Mac	O
was	O
made	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
12	O
,	O
2011	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
announced	O
that	O
Ntfsprogs	B-Language
project	O
was	O
merged	O
with	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3g	B-Application
added	O
TRIM	O
support	O
in	O
version	O
2015.3.14	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
fixed	O
CVE-2017-0358	O
in	O
version	O
2016.2.22	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NTFS-3G	B-Application
fixed	O
CVE-2019-9755	O
in	O
version	O
2017.3.23AR.4	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
's	O
main	O
maintainer	O
Jean-Pierre	O
André	O
has	O
kept	O
the	O
development	O
active	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
,	O
providing	O
bug	O
fixes	O
and	O
new	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
ran	O
a	O
parallel	O
release	O
system	O
on	O
his	O
website	O
as	O
the	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
Advanced	O
Version	O
(	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
AR	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Linux	B-Application
distributions	O
that	O
have	O
switched	O
to	O
NTFS-3G	B-Application
AR	O
include	O
Debian	O
and	O
its	O
derivatives	O
(	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
,	O
PureOS	B-Language
,	O
Pardus	B-Operating_System
,	O
Parrot	O
OS	O
,	O
Trisquel	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Gentoo	B-Application
Linux	I-Application
,	O
and	O
LiGurOS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
August	O
30	O
,	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
previously	O
two	O
collaborating	O
projects	O
merged	O
and	O
moved	O
to	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
