Hi > As far as I know, even mature projects like Apache have not > bothered fixing such hangs (or even detecting this kind of underlying > OS flaw). that's right, but Apache is not a fault tolerant file system, in the other hand some applications that face bugs in other apps have options to workaround bugs in such applications (like dovecot has for some outlook bugs). For a fault tolerant file sistem i would expect that it can at least detect and handle any problem in any of the subsystems involved. -- Best regards ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- David Saez Padros http://www.ols.es On-Line Services 2000 S.L. telf +34 902 50 29 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------