Hello again, Since nobody has made any suggestions about the behaviour mentioned above being a feature and not a bug, I took a liberty to fix it - if changing one constant in one line of C code can be called "fixing". The attached diff has been made against vanilla 2.6.5 kernel sources. A bit of context changing will be in order for it to apply to 2.4.26 because of filesystem options structure type having changed; I haven't looked at 2.2. Regards, -- MS