OK, I tried it out for my use case of flinging VM filesystem images around on ext4 and it seems to do the job. I don't have any 64-bit systems here at home so I used my feeble 32-bit netbook. Since sizeof(off_t) != sizeof(long long) the debug output was all wrong: punching at 8989607068975104 len -4635819229210214401 but the image file and the host filesystem both survived the ordeal. Ron -- 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