Hi Paul, These probabilities are way off. They assume that whatever interaction happens in XP has infinite memory. The testing I've done indicates that the memory for this interaction is very small (maybe 3 or 4? it's hard to know precisely). I've also confirmed this with lots of testing. If the probability was 39% for any directory size then I would have found it. In all my testing I did not once produce a XP crash with the full patch. To produce the XP crash I needed to have a reduced version of the patch with less randomness. Cheers, Tridge -- 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