Hi all. It seems I do have the long-awaited fix. The symptoms of the problem: kernel starts to issue complaints about key inconsistency with the suggestions to check the partition with fsck. Fsck sometimes finds corruptions, but sometimes reports that file system is consistent. Please apply the attached patch to reiser4 stuff for 3.6.2, or download reiser4-for-3.6.4 (which already contains this patch), and let me know if the problem has not gone: http://sourceforge.net/projects/reiser4/files/reiser4-for-linux-3.x/ Please, don't rush to deploy production systems on reiser4: it can take up to 80 hours to reproduce the problem with high workload. Thank you for your help. Edward.