Continuing on with my earlier post . . . after looking through code of JBD, is the following perhaps the difference in why the md5 values differ; When a journalled filesystem that uses jbd is mounted the journal b_count is incremented by one? *EVEN* if the volume was mounted read only, this b_count is still increased by one? curious as ever! lt __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users