I've fixed up the locking for el(4) but don't have any of the hardware to test it. Can anyone else test these simple patches? http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/el_locking.patch -- John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org