It sounds like you have a disk which is doing very aggressive write caching. If you are using a new enough kernel (2.6.9 or greater should have this), adding "barrier=1" to your mount options should help. We should probably make this the default at this point... - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users