Was experimenting with a patch to display the open files on a Linux network mount for debugging Would something like this new pseudo-file for the client to allow debugging problems where it is important to see the currently open files from the client's perspective be useful as is? additional info from dentry or inode needed? or ok with the terse output here? sfrench@smf-Thinkpad-P51:~/$ ls /proc/fs/cifs/ -la total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 . dr-xr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Oct 19 09:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 cifsFYI -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 DebugData -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 LinuxExtensionsEnabled -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 LookupCacheEnabled -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 open_files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 SecurityFlags -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 Stats -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:07 traceSMB sfrench@smf-Thinkpad-P51:~/$ cat /proc/fs/cifs/open_files Display debugging information for open files -------------------------------------------- tcon: 0x15329b49 \\localhost\test persistent fid: 0x7688e758 flags 0x8000 count 1 pid: 23477 uid: 1000 persistent fid: 0xd5b54934 flags 0x8000 count 1 pid: 23476 uid: 0 -- Thanks, Steve