I am the one who started this this thread. I am very sorry. I found that the machine I had the reiserfs error was running on the 2.4.17-pre6, not one of those rc1 or rc2. Beside that, I still have a concern on the security level of the reiserfs in general. On the linux-kernel list, I see more articles on the troubles of reiserfs than on the troubles of ext3. Is ext3 more stabilized by now or is ext3 less used in the linux community? Again, my apology for the misinformation in the original article. Best regards, Hugh