I had issues w/ dpkg not being able to successfully lock the package > directory, so Debian etc based distros might be out. You would have to wait for fuse to permit mmap() of O_RDWR files for that to work (maybe 2.6.25 kernel). probably there is a way to disable dpkg to use mmap() based I/O at build time (most packages using mmap() for I/O do have option to swith to read()/write() I/O) avati -- It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -- Hofstadter's Law