Would you like to elaborate on what these tests were doing, and what exactly a dropped frame is in this context (for those that aren't familiar with this sort of work). I assume you basically have 4 boxes writing lots of data to a server over Samba shares. Are they writing individual files, or components within larger files (ie is (file level) locking involved in this)? Is a dropped frame equivalent to a missing file, or a corrupt file or a hole within a file? Cheers Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users