> It would require reverse engineering the journal format, which may even change with every Windows release.
It does not. Thanks to Microsoft’s obsessive attention to backwards compatibility, you can safely mount a Windows 10 NTFS partition with journal on Windows XP (and I hear even Windows 2000) and get some form of safe read/write. However certain chunks of the fs on disk are not backwards compatible, this is mainly the system volume information used for system restore and shadow copy (and not accessible to typical user land in all cases).
More to the point, the submitted driver does, too:
It does not. Thanks to Microsoft’s obsessive attention to backwards compatibility, you can safely mount a Windows 10 NTFS partition with journal on Windows XP (and I hear even Windows 2000) and get some form of safe read/write. However certain chunks of the fs on disk are not backwards compatible, this is mainly the system volume information used for system restore and shadow copy (and not accessible to typical user land in all cases).
More to the point, the submitted driver does, too:
> and supports journal replaying.