Hi, On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:22:55PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > btw, I'm about 95% of the way done with backporting ext3 to redhat > 2.4.2-2; I just need to add prefetch() (required by fs/buffer.c).. Don't bother, prefetch() is just a performance optimisation used to get certain data into the CPU's L1 cache in advance of its use. Ripping out the prefetch stuff entirely will only affect performance: things will still work fine. Cheers, Stephen