That's perfect timing, thanks a lot, Edward, I just wanted to ask, what the current status for reiser4 is :) The mentioned hanging with bash-scripts is gone with 2.6.24-vanilla/gentoo-sources + 2.6.24-rc8-mm1-based reiser4-patch + your additional patch, it should be the same with official / your 2.6.24-patch However, I still run into them from time to time with zen-sources: http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/zen-sources.git , perhaps due to it's aggressive / tweaked nature, that's the only little "problem" right now, reiser4 is perfectly stable & pretty fast: it e.g. cuts down compile time for openoffice-2.3.1 by about 15-20 minutes with cypcompress + lzo1 (noatime,nodiratime) compared to reiserfs (noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback,commit=120) reiserfs: around 2 hours reiser4 + cryptcompress w. lzo1: 1 hour 40 minutes kde4 is simply a pleasure with it :) i've attached the test-scripts (usually intended for some tweaking / power-saving tests), perhaps you're able to reproduce the "hang": - when executing full.sh & no problems, it should exit (vanilla-kernel behavior) - when executing & the mentioned behavior it should sit there & executing the file & not exiting, finishing it; everytime it seems to halt / hang at another position Regards, Mat - 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