Hello Marti, I have reproduced this bug. Thanks for details. Will try to fix.. Edward. Marti Raudsepp wrote: One morning I happened to find this BUG traceback in my dmesg output. I have no clue what caused it, and it didn't seem to have any effect on the stability of the system. uname: Linux non 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 #1 Fri Sep 28 19:11:19 EEST 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux dmesg: [16184.832157] reiser4[ktxnmgrd:dm-3:r(1209)]: disable_write_barrier (fs/reiser4/wander.c:234)[zam-1055]: [16184.832160] NOTICE: dm-3 does not support write barriers, using synchronous write instead. ... [451329.064221] reiser4[cat(13038)]: extent2tail (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:662)[]: [451329.064224] WARNING: reiser4_write_tail failed [451329.064232] reiser4[cat(13038)]: release_unix_file (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2376)[nikita-3233]: [451329.064234] WARNING: Failed (-28) to convert in release_unix_file (4099340) [451329.067453] reiser4[cat(13039)]: extent2tail ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html