Aneesh, thanks! Chris Mason also pointed us at this proposed patch, where he seems to be tracking a very similar issue for btrfs. I don't know if you've seen it.... http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/25560 - Ted -- 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