I ran into a problem: I extend several fields to file handle, and change compose_fh() to initialize some value into the file handle. I think the client side should be able to associate the file handle with inode and used them properly afterwards. However, I found a problem: Say I have a program 'postmark" in /tmp, and my current directory is / If I do '/tmp/postmark', getattr() funciton will not use the right file handle with extension. Instead, it seems to use a file handle excluding my extension but if I change to '/tmp', do 'ls -al' first, then I do 'postmark', getattr() will use the right file handle. So I think maybe I need to change NFS client to associate the extened file handle with inode . But I don't know where NFS client does this. Can someone give me a help? Many thanks! -x - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html