At 11:18 AM 6/9/2008, Jeff Layton wrote: >No, it's not specific to NFS. It can happen to any "service" that >floats IP addresses between machines, but does not close the sockets >that are connected to those addresses. Most services that fail over >(at least in RH's cluster server) shut down the daemons on failover >too, so tends to mitigate this problem elsewhere. Why exactly don't you choose to restart the nfsd's (and lockd's) on the victim server? Failing that, for TCP at least would ifdown/ifup accomplish the socket reset? Tom. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html