I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor choice of name. There is precedent for that function name with different meaning in the userland APIs. (It's a moderately useless meaning inherited from SVR4, but regardless overloading a name previously used is unwise.) Thanks, Roland -- 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