I reran the test with my patch and what looks like a different hang in glock and/or dlm. The info is here: http://developer.osdl.org/daniel/GFS/rm.hang.09dec2004/ Daniel PS I'm running with patrick's small patch now. On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:43, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > There are a few straws being clutched at but can you try this patch > please?