Hi Theodore, Jens kernel is 2.6.29-07099-g8b53ef3 Mount failed: EXT4-fs: barriers enabled kjournald2 starting: pid 1867, dev loop0:8, commit interval 5 seconds EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_iget: block reference 2703228928 >= max (524288) in inode #2, offset=0 EXT4-fs: get root inode failed EXT4-fs (device loop0): mount failed ===================================== [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] ------------------------------------- mount/1865 is trying to release lock (&lo->lo_ctl_mutex) at: [<00000000006fa1c0>] mutex_unlock+0x10/0x20 but there are no more locks to release! other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by mount/1865: #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<00000000004dd570>] __blkdev_put+0x1c/0x14c stack backtrace: Call Trace: [0000000000477538] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xe8/0xf8 [0000000000477624] lock_release_non_nested+0xdc/0x290 [0000000000477984] lock_release+0x1ac/0x1d8 [00000000006fa120] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xe8/0x178 [00000000006fa1c0] mutex_unlock+0x10/0x20 [0000000000621e38] lo_release+0x70/0x80 [00000000004dd5fc] __blkdev_put+0xa8/0x14c [00000000004dd6b8] blkdev_put+0x18/0x2c [00000000004dd704] blkdev_close+0x38/0x4c [00000000004b6f0c] __fput+0xfc/0x1e4 [00000000004b701c] fput+0x28/0x38 [00000000004b4198] filp_close+0x74/0x88 [00000000004529e0] put_files_struct+0x9c/0xfc [0000000000452a70] exit_files+0x30/0x40 [000000000045406c] do_exit+0x160/0x734 [00000000004546cc] do_group_exit+0x8c/0xc4 -- 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