Please don't mind me CC'ing the mailing list. Just in case anybody else is running into the same problem. I am running reiser 3.6 as well: ReiserFS: dm-0: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal What about that "exec" option in your /etc/fstab line? > Frank, > > Thanks for your information. I just tried with reiser 3.6 and the > problem persists. What version of reiser do you use? > > Perhaps I have to try testing. > > Thomas