Well, it works well enough for me to be writing this mail from it! :) Lashi, it should be pretty similar to what your running, but I'd like to see the diff :) http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/stew-patches/patch-2.4.21-ben2-xfs.bz2 against stock 2.4.21 -- Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>