oh, i also saw this in my log on mu-rhdev2: 009-04-08 15:00:20 W [dht-common.c:231:dht_revalidate_cbk] nufa: linkfile found in revalidate for /foo2 2009-04-08 15:00:20 W [fuse-bridge.c:301:need_fresh_lookup] fuse-bridge: revalidate of /foo2 failed (Stale NFS file handle) 2009-04-08 15:04:15 W [dht-common.c:215:dht_revalidate_cbk] nufa: mismatching filetypes 0100000 v/s 040000 for /foo1 2009-04-08 15:04:15 W [dht-common.c:215:dht_revalidate_cbk] nufa: mismatching filetypes 0100000 v/s 040000 for /foo1 2009-04-08 15:04:15 W [fuse-bridge.c:301:need_fresh_lookup] fuse-bridge: revalidate of /foo1 failed (Invalid argument) and my version of fuse is fuse-2.7.4-1.el5.rf thx matt