Subject pretty much says it all. For testing purposes I tried to disable barriers in fstab (barriers=0). On reboot the filesystem will not mount read/write until barriers are reenabled. This occurs whether I use ordered data mode or data writeback mode, in both Gentoo and Slackware 12.1 Is this behavior by design (that barriers can not be disabled)? Thanks, Gary -- 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