Did you see the comments I made to the original version of your patch (e-mail dated April 6, 2008). The comments can be easily found in the ext4 patchwork website: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/25380/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/25381/ My concern is about stray inodes on the orphan list causing a panic on umount, and it looks like these patches increases the exposure of this happening. - 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