Hi, yesterday I got a very strange ext2 error on my linux machine.. The system has a 5-disk raid-5-software-raid and on top of this there is one ext2 fs which was clean when mounted 1 week ago.. kernel 2.4.17 (since 1 week) before it was 2.4.10 suddenly some directories were hidden and so I looked at the logs: here is a part of /var/log/warn (because it was about 50k I put it on the websrv): http://webmail.koenigsnet.rwth-aachen.de/a/warn after rebooting with kernel 2.4.10 and starting an fsck there were 10,8 billion errors and now files are gone :-((((((( ..patrick