On 16 Oct 2014, at 21:43, Anton Altaparmakov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Only directories and attributes containing B-trees are handled by mst_aops. Not all system files are B-trees and often there are both B-trees and data attributes and the latter are usually not mst protected thus normal_aops are used. Need to correct my above statement. $MFT and $MFTmirr are both $DATA attribute containing files that use mst_aops. But they are the only exceptions to the above. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @) Senior Kernel Engineer, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/ Linux NTFS maintainer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html