I'm still very unhappy about the get/set flag state. What is the reason you can't use/extend leases? (take a look at the fcntl man page and look for Leases). A variant of the concept is what the pNFS block server uses. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>