Still no independent confirmation as to whether this is a problem or not. I think it is, so I'll propose this patchset to fix it. Patch 1/3 has a reasonable description of the problem. Thanks, Nick -- SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html