Interesting, Andreas. We don't do anything as heavyweight as allocating an inode in this path, just mark the inode dirty (which puts it on a list) and set a bit in the inode flags. Regards, Daniel -- 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