I'm running 2.4.11-pre4 with the ext3 patch and Andrew Morton's low-latency patch on an alpha LX164. umount times are extremely long (> 30 minutes) for both ext2 and ext3 filesystems, though they eventually succeed. Is this a known problem? Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics