A quick look at Severn indicates that ext3/htree patches and ACL patches are not included in the kernel.src.rpm. It would be nice to have filesystem support for large directories available out of the box for RH Linux (ext3/htree or XFS). I thought the ext3/htree backport of 2.4 was quite stable REgards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg at outblaze.com