Mostlt RH 6.2 on sparc64. 2.2.18 works fine. A strace(1) of a failed mdir(1) ends: open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 SYS_63() = 0 flock(3, LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB) = 0 ioctl(3, FDGETPRM, 0xefffde98) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) close(3) = 0 write(2, "init: set default params\n", 25init: set default params ) = 25 write(2, "Cannot initialize \'A:\'\n", 23Cannot initialize 'A:' ) = 23 exit(1) = ? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/