Will be in 2.6.23 and should help Samba when running over some cluster and network file systems. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8dcf12f9e8ba113251c04d602f1695d537fb142 I plan to add similar support to the cifs client. -- Thanks, Steve