Another observation Mount point attributes do not persist over mount unmount cycles. eg "mount /dev/mtdblock/5 /usr/local -t yaffs" results in /usr/local now having attributes that differed from the last unmount. Nick Bane --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is hosted by Toby Churchill open software (www.toby-churchill.org). If mailing list membership is no longer wanted you can remove yourself from the list by sending an email to yaffs-request@toby-churchill.org with the text "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) as the subject.