You would need to do the state recovery before or during the fsck (which would require the local filesystem to have some loose integration with the network protocol). Also, re the original issue, can't the client do a silly rename of the directory if it contains only .nfs files during rmdir? > Suppose though that the server crashes and reboots. When it comes back >> up, fsck figures out that the file has been unlinked and frees the >> blocks on the disk. Now you can't reclaim the state on the open file. -- 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