Ok, how about this one.. FreeBSD nfsstat -s (statistics zeroed before running tar) after extracting Cocoa-3rd.tgz -> Server Info: Getattr Setattr Lookup Readlink Read Write Create Remove 628 6419 5871 0 627 2488 1989 627 Rename Link Symlink Mkdir Rmdir Readdir RdirPlus Access 0 0 0 227 0 0 0 5529 Mknod Fsstat Fsinfo PathConf Commit 0 2 1 1 2318 Server Ret-Failed 5871 Server Faults 0 Server Cache Stats: Inprog Idem Non-idem Misses 0 0 0 0 Server Write Gathering: WriteOps WriteRPC Opsaved 2488 2488 0 Fedora 12 nfsstat -s -> Server rpc stats: calls badcalls badauth badclnt xdrcall 33275 0 0 0 0 Server nfs v3: null getattr setattr lookup access readlink 0 0% 627 1% 6426 19% 8523 25% 9111 27% 0 0% read write create mkdir symlink mknod 994 2% 2362 7% 1996 5% 221 0% 0 0% 0 0% remove rmdir rename link readdir readdirplus 660 1% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0% fsstat fsinfo pathconf commit 1 0% 0 0% 0 0% 2353 7% So... 33275 RPC calls for 1589 directories/files? -- 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