On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: > I probably mistyped something and thus bisected again: maybe this is just a symptom. When was the nfs4 code converted to just use a single open struct file, and what are the lifetime rules for it? It would easily be that a long alive file might make XFS keep persistent preallocations longer or similar issues. Adam, can you create a loop filesystem with ext3 or something else on it and see if the problem is XFS-specific? -- 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