Hi Andrew, This removes quite a few instances of BKL usage in the bfs driver. Given the purpose and the user base of this driver, I do not believe that a finer-granularity lock than the big fat filesystem-wide mutex I have implemented here is needed. Please consider. Thanks, Dmitri -- 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