Hi,

Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> I also just noticed that if the filesystem is mounted and I run the
> ntfsfallocate test program (with --force), the file is successfully
> alloced. However, the free space is not updated. The fs needs to be
> unmounted/mounted again. Is there a way around this that you are aware
> of?
>    

That is a dangerous procedure : you are mounting
the file system twice, with two memory copies of
metadata and no lock whatsoever. Changes made
through one mounting are not reflected in the other
one, and this will quickly lead to inconsistencies.

Regards

Jean-Pierre


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