On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Petre Rodan wrote: > thanks for the tip. looks like I'm using xfsprogs 3.0.3 (latest version in the gentoo stable tree) to mkfs these filesystems. can the antique version be somehow the root of the problem? Yes, lazy-count has been the default since xfsprogs 3.1.0.