Okay... I *think* that fixes the hang. There was one case where I saw the hang, but I'm not sure that I had your patches applied or whether I'd managed to boot the previous kernel that didn't. So, just with respect to fixing the hang: Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> There's still the issue of encrypted filenames occasionally showing through which generic/397 is showing up - but I don't think your patches here fix that, right? David