Steve, All A new wip patch to use leases to track when the cached root file handle has changed. When the lease is broken we set up a work item to close the file handle and uncache the handle. On next access the handle is reopened and cached again. As a further step we can use queue_delayed_work in a similar fashion to automatically uncache the handle after xyz time. That is a small later patch once we have the basics. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html