One interestin caveat about inode numers is that the we use the XFS_DIR2_DATA_FREE_TAG magic number in the firt two bytes of struct xfs_dir2_data_unused to detect this free space header in all non-shortform directory formats. These two bytes overlap with the inode number in struct xfs_dir2_data_entry. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs