On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Can you try this patch then, against original v1.4d > > -+ bh = kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep, SLAB_ATOMIC); > ++ bh = 0; /* kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep, SLAB_ATOMIC); */ Heh, I think I see what you are doing ;) Well, this seems to work! I was able to losetup ; mkfs ; mount, and am now looping over some dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.$A runs to fill/touch more of the disk; will follow with some bonnie's and such. This is probably only a temporary workaround but it works for me. Thanks for the quick test-fixes! Hank Leininger <hlein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> E407 AEF4 761E D39C D401 D4F4 22F8 EF11 861A A6F1 Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/