ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
ReactOS gains NTFS install support with new driver.
ReactOS gains NTFS install support with new driver.
The short version
- Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition.
- As reported by Phoronix , the move to NTFS clears a long-standing hurdle for the project and brings it one step closer to finally reaching beta.
- However, users looking to hop off the Windows train shouldn’t be grabbing their bags just yet.
What happened
ReactOS wrote that the new driver still “lacks caching (which causes inferior performance), journaling and security support.” So while the new driver is here, even the most intrepid of OS tinkerers should tread carefully. The ReactOS team warned in its announcement on X that there are still “potentially undiscovered bugs.” The new driver closes a gap in development of nearly a decade.
Why it matters
Read-only NTFS support was added to ReactOS all the way back in 2016, with boot support landing on FreeLoader in 2022.
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