Hi Alexander,

Alexander Kalouguine wrote:
> Hi colleagues,
>
> For our project, we need simultaneous access to the NTFS-3G partition 
> (from several clients).

Currently, you need a single front-end (NFS, Samba, etc).

> Could you please let us know if the NTFS-3G driver supports 
> simultaneous access to the NTFS volumes for one writer + multiple 
> readers with the locking implemented on the volume level and not on 
> the file-level?

No.

> If yes, could you please let us know if the NTFS-3G handles OK the 
> Windows+Mac or Windows+Linux environments, i.e. when:
> 1. The writer is the Windows workstation and the readers are Mac OS X 
> (Linux)
> workstations;
> 2. The writer is Mac OS X (Linux) workstation and the readers are 
> Windows 
> workstations;
> 3. Other combinations of readers and writer?

None.

> Is there specific NTFS-3G API that enables to ‘reload the FS cache 
> data from the volume’, ‘flush the FS cache data to the volume’ for 
> NTFS volumes under Mac OS X or Linux?

Yes. It is called mount/umount (though the option
remount is not implemented yet).

Regards

Jean-Pierre




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