Myklebust, Trond wrote: That's a different issue. If you do an 'echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger', then do you see any other process that is stuck in the nfs layer and that might be holding the inode->i_mutex? Hard to tell. There are a couple of possibilities. I've put the console output here, and will investigate more in the morning: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/pnfs/block/download/console.txt -- 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