Hi Jens, Here's a new version of the laptop-mode patch (and control script). I've made a couple of improvements because of your comments. The block_dump functionality (including block dirtying) is back, and my alternative functionality has gone. There's just one bit of the block dumping patch that I couldn't place, the bit in filemap.c. The 2.6 code is so different here that I really couldn't figure out what I should do with it. Do you have any idea where this has gone (and if it is still needed)? Bart