Some more info behind the problem: I can write over big files with a smaller file (smaller being a couple bytes), for instance `echo > bigfile` will result in the big file becomming much smaller and the freed space will return to the filesystem no problem. I can also rm smaller files without problem, smaller files being anything smaller then the stripe size. So a combination of `echo > bigfile; rm bigfile` works no problem. However this becomes rather inconvenient... Not sure if this info helps at all, just trying to be as thorough as possible. Thanks again, David Schwenker