Hi Ryan, >> This is a completely fresh loopback EXT3 filesystem, untouched by fsck -D, >> and normally unmounted. > Oh, and I've attached the current version of my test program if anyone is > interested. > ... > It can corrupt my loopback test filesystems in under 5 minutes. Note that it > will completely destroy any data in its working directory, however. I am running your program now over an hour without any corruption on the loopback mounted ext3 filesystem. This is with the latest patch (1) from Theodore + latest small fix from Christoper for the kernel and for latest e2fsprogs. I made some debian packages available which includes the latest fixes, can be found here (2). Anyway, works great for me! :) 1) http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/ext3-dxdir/ 2) http://wolk.sf.net/e2fsprogs/ -- Kind regards Marc-Christian Petersen http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk PGP/GnuPG Key: 1024D/569DE2E3DB441A16 Fingerprint: 3469 0CF8 CA7E 0042 7824 080A 569D E2E3 DB44 1A16 Key available at www.keyserver.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users