Hello :) My system just crashed because of a power fluctuation and the root filesystem was damaged. The system booted up just fine, but when samba tried to start up the kernel oops'd. xfs_repair was apparently able to repair the damage, though I seem to have lost some files. I do realize that a lot of awful things can happen if you just cut the power, but the kernel shouldn't oops on a mounted file system, right? Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to the lists. Regards Thomas $ rpm -q xfsprogs xfsprogs-2.9.4-4.fc8 $ uname -a Linux linux.local.loc 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux