NTFS&HFS for Linux 8.5 Professional

Paragon NTFS&HFS for Linux 8.5 Professional is a commercial Linux kernel driver for rapid and transparent read/write access to NTFS and HFS+/HFSX volumes. The Professional Edition includes full functional combined NTFS and HFS+/HFSX drivers for Linux, complimentary support and additional utilities to check partition integrity, defragment, wipe, create NTFS volumes and perform other NTFS and HFS+/HFSX file system related tasks from your Linux OS.

Price per license: $39.95

Full features

What's new in Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Linux 8.5:
Key Features
General Features

What's new in Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Linux 8.5:

Support for modern Linux Kernels (up to 2.6.38);
Improved read/write performance;
Optimized disk space allocation to reduce fragmentation of files;
Improved performance of HFS+ journal;
All known bugs are fixed.

Key Features

Transparent read-write access to NTFS and HFS volumes — single Kernel module provides support both NTFS and HFS+ file systems
High performance (in some cases even better than native Linux FS);
Easy installation and uninstallation (performed via shell scripts);
Support for modern Linux Kernels and distributions;
Support for SMP kernels;
File sharing over network via SAMBA;
Low CPU load during data transfers;
Unlimited file and volume size (within NTFS/HFS+ and Kernel limitations).

General Features

Mount any NTFS and HFS+/HFSX volumes like native Linux ones. Automatically add volumes to fstab (for automatic mounting at Linux startup).
64 Bit architecture support
Supported NTFS features (see also "Compatibility")
- NTFS versions 1.2, 3.0 and 3.1 (Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista/Windows 7)
- compressed files (NTFS)
- sparse files support (NTFS)
Supported HFS/HFSX features (see also "Compatibility")
- HFS+/HFSX version shipped with MacOS 10.4, 10.5, 10.6
File and folder names in national languages, including Asian. Codepage for filename translation is specified via mount options.
Low CPU load during data transfers
Support for SMP kernels (multiprocessor systems)
High performance — transfer rate is the same as for native File systems
There is no limitation to maximum file and volume size (within the kernel and NTFS or HFS+/HFSX limitations)

Additional NTFS utilities:

mkntfs utility - format any partition as NTFS under Linux;
chkntfs utility - check NTFS partition integrity and fix errors;
dfntfs utility - defragment an NTFS volume;
wipe utility - fill with zeros free space on a NTFS/FAT volume;
infntfs utility - show detailed information about NTFS partitions;
mftpack utility - pack/truncate MFT (Master File Table) on a NTFS volume;
hdlnk utility - enumerate all hard links on a NTFS volume;
junction utility - show reparse points on a NTFS volume;
fsutil utility - perform many NTFS/HFS+ file system related tasks.
infntfs utility - show detailed information about NTFS partitions;

Additional HFS+ utilities:

mkhfs utility - format any partition as HFS+ under Linux;
chkhfs utility - check HFS+ partition for integrity and fix errors;
fsutil utility - perform many NTFS/HFS+ file system related tasks.

Compatibility
NTFS features

Reading and writing compressed files is fully supported in both sequential and random orders.
Encrypted files are read encrypted. During copy operation, file data streams will be copied encrypted with loss of decryption capability.
When copying from NTFS to Linux FS: all additional streams will not be copied, along with compression flag and security attributes.
Any link will be copied as a full file with its body, losing link information.
NTFS stores filenames in UTF-16 encoding. This may cause confusion when very long filenames containing non-latin characters are used and UTF-8 is selected as default Kernel codepage.

HFS features

Both case sensitive and case instensitive types of HFS+ file system are supported.
During file copy operation (using cp command) on Linux only ‘data’ fork is copied.

_{*Complimentary support provides installation assistance and free support for 60 consecutive calendar days starting from your Paragon software and license date of purchase. Support requests are to be submitted via Paragon Web site only.}