Hi Steve, Jeff, Thanks for the detailed info and suggestions. It sounds like a 3.0 backport is the way to go then, since I've seen a number of other fixes and improvements go that way, let's see how that works :) sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html