Hi, I've been thinking about the non serialized readdirs. I do not understand. Readdirs have to be serialized, since the offset of the next readdir (belonging to the opendir) is known when the current readdir is finished: "start where current left". So it means probably that lookup (which in fact is only a read only operation) of a name in a directory can be done while a readdir is active on the same directory. Or something else? Two readdirs (or more) belonging to different opendirs active on the same directory? Stef -- 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