Hmm, I've looked at your dumpe2fs, and the free space looks pretty good. Was this taken before or after you ran the backup? How big are your full and incremental backups? And were you testing the time when writing an incremental backup or a full backup? Finally, can you use the debugfs program, and then use the debugfs's "extents" commands? i.e. % debugfs /dev/heap/u1 debugfs: extents linux-image-3.15.0-00037-g7428869-dbg_3.15.0-00037-g7428869-86_amd64.deb Level Entries Logical Physical Length Flags 0/ 0 1/ 3 0 - 9 16898520 - 16898529 10 0/ 0 2/ 3 10 - 2047 17518592 - 17520629 2038 0/ 0 3/ 3 2048 - 9881 17500160 - 17507993 7834 debugfs: q ... and send me the output? Thanks!! - 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