On Thursday November 8, neilb@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Not really a credible difference as the reported difference is between > two *clients* and the speed of getattr vs lookup would depend on the > *server*. Sorry, my bad. I misread your original problem description. It would appear to be a server difference. Maybe an "strace -tt" of the nfs server might show some significant difference. NeilBrown - 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