Any chance you could also remove the lock_super usage once your start revisiting the lock? lock_super is never taken by the VFS anymore, so you can easily replace it with fs-local locking. -- 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