Since 2.4.18 is 3 months old, and Marcello just put out what he claims will be the last pre kernel for 2.4.19 we have decided to move our 2.4 kernel tree up to 2.4.19-pre9. The TAKE message (from Eric) will not show up until tomorrow, but the code should be out there a lot sooner. Steve -- Steve Lord voice: +1-651-683-3511 Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@sgi.com