HI: When I use mknod(./node_1077,0100777,0), it return a error errno=2:No such file or directory. Mode 0100777 means create a common file.so I compared it with touch. I found that when calling nfs4_do_open,in touch the flag is 0x8482,but in mknod,the flag is 0x40. When calling mknod,the flag come from function nfs_create, if((nd->flags & LOOKUP_CREATE) !=0) open_flags = nd->intent.open.flags; so i guess can I add a flags at here as below: if((nd->flags & LOOKUP_CREATE) !=0) open_flags = nd->intent.open.flags | O_CREAT | F_WRLCK; with this change, mknod(./node_1077,0100777,0) return success. look forward to your reply. -- 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