Ritvik, I can can see the negative open file count on running xfstest generic/047 followed by generic/048 (to Windows target) Do you also see this? Do you see it without your close retry patch as well? 1) \\win16.vm.test\Scratch SMBs: 1795 since 2024-04-03 21:11:08 UTC Bytes read: 0 Bytes written: 1235222528 Open files: 3 total (local), -155 open on server -- Thanks, Steve