I was doing some experiments with Ronnie's patch (to use a cached handle in query info/query fs info compounding cases, if file is already open) and it does appear to help a lot, but ... I see some strange behavior if I do a mount a share to /mnt directory then 1) stat /mnt 2) stat /mnt/file the subsequent stat /mnt/file aren't sent on the wire (cached) which is good if I then to to the server and 3) echo "somedata" >> file I see a lease break and subsequent stat calls aren't cached until I do 4) stat /mnt then 5) stat /mnt/file again -- Thanks, Steve