Hi Ryan, > I am running your program now over an hour without any corruption on the > loopback mounted ext3 filesystem. shit, I thought testing over an hour (10mins your program, umount, fsck -fD test.img in a loop) is enough but it isn't. Damn f*ck :( root@codeman:[/] # fsck -fD test.img fsck 1.29 (24-Sep-2002) e2fsck 1.29 (24-Sep-2002) Truncating orphaned inode 6871 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0103244, size=0) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Problem in HTREE directory inode 2 (/): bad block number 3291184. Clear HTree index<y>? yes Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity /lost+found not found. Create<y>? yes Pass 3A: Optimizing directories Optimizing directories: 2 Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information this occured just after I sent my first mail :(( -- 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