Aneesh, Thanks for the link. The Gentoo & Slackware kernels booted fine once this patch was applied. (I had to patch the clean kernel source with this patch, then apply the ext4-patch-queue, telling it not to override your patch). Can we get the ext4-patch-queue updated with this patch? Thanks for your quick assistance, Gary Hawco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html