Oops.. > WHY A TIMEOUT - need a way for operator to abort the > freeze instead of "abort" I should have said "limit" because it is really proactive control (so they will not get called in the middle of the night by pissed users). I forgot to make it clear that TIMEOUT is the same as AUTO-THAW in logging errors so the adnin knows they have a bad snapshot and can do it again. I also forgot to say that our customers all say they can deal with retrying a snapshot, but not with unknown bad snapshots and most definitely not with killing their 24/7 operations! jim -- 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