Long back I found that TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager - a backup/archive program sometimes still called by its older name of ADSM) didn't handle ext3 filesystems very well, and provided a note with workround for Stephen's documentation. I've just pulled the TSM client version 5.1.0 and one of the announced features is ext3 (and jfs) support. So if you use TSM and upgrade, you can take all the VirtualMountpoint directives out of your config files. Nigel.