Hi Ted, thanks for putting my mind at ease on both accounts. I'm about to restart installation again, and this time I'll try with ext4-4 and default mount options, i.e. delalloc turned on. Installing Gentoo is compile-intensive, and on my dual-core box I'd normally go with -j3. Since you say that -j4 kernel compiles work out for you, I'm going to try with -j3 this time as well. Fingers crossed. I'll get this install on ext4, and if it takes forever ;-). Greetings, Peter -- 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