I went ahead and rediffed ext3-0.9.9 against 2.4.9-ac10. Find it attached (65k, 17k gzipped). Ted's ext3 directory speedup still applies cleanly, of course. Still using ext3-0.9.9 + dir speed up, now on ac10, with no problems. -- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net