Hi Gary, thanks for taking the time to write a comprehensive and informative reply! I'm about to give 2.6.26-ext4-4 a try, which removes the journal credits patch, and am going to leave delalloc enabled given Theo's confidence in its stability under non-synthetic usage conditions. If I'm unlucky with that as well, I'll finally try with nodelalloc once more, which went fine until I for- got to set rootflags and the credits patch made it eat itself. 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