Thanks for the reply. copied the patch from the line "diff...." onward did a fresh kernel tree and got the following (same on 2.6.39-r1 and r2) localhost linux# patch -p1 --dry-run --verbose < disk-io.patch Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c |index c650a1d..53e330e 100644 |--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c |+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c -------------------------- Patching file fs/btrfs/disk-io.c using Plan A... Hunk #1 succeeded at 281. Hunk #2 succeeded at 296. Hunk #3 succeeded at 328. Hunk #4 succeeded at 338. Hunk #5 succeeded at 360. Hunk #6 succeeded at 2012. Hunk #7 succeeded at 2631. done A perfect patch job if I say so :) any other ideas are welcome Dan Witzel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
