Hello again, I checked my superblock and here is what I got. Does this give any of you a clue why my Linus kernels are having trouble? Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x308 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 4359616 Number of bitmaps: 134 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 1697731 Root block: 11439 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 5 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 48, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x6f37a0cc] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0: sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 614010 UUID: 4b110765-741f-4241-9019-2690727ba621 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN Super block seems to be correct