Hi, For a specific case I have /etc/exports with 1281 entries as I need mount --bind to be exported to NFS Clients too. Since I have ~1100 entries, reexporting /etc/exports have some bad effects to connected clients, load rise to ~500 for 4/5 minutes, this is always reproducible. This was using 'exportfs -ra'. I did try with 'exportfs 192.168.0.1:/srv/mail/1234' to avoid reexport every directories, and the sync process but the result is the same. /etc/exports options look like : /srv/mail 192.168.0.0/24(rw,async,no_wdelay,secure,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,no_subtree_check,nohide,crossmnt) /srv/mail/1234 192.168.0.0/24(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,no_subtree_check,nohide,crossmnt) NFS is mounted like this on client : 192.168.0.1:/srv/mail on /var/mail type nfs (rw,nosuid,sync,remount,noatime,nodiratime,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,proto=udp,nolock,actimeo=3) Server versions: Kernel: 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (debian) nfs-utils: 1.1.2 Client versions: Kernel: 2.6.26-2-amd64 (debian) nfs-utils: 1.1.2 Am I in a huge case not really intended or a configuration mistake ? Thanks, Bertrand -- Bertrand Jacquin, EXOSEC (http://www.exosec.fr/) ZAC des Metz - 3 Rue du petit robinson - 78350 JOUY EN JOSAS Tel: +33 1 30 67 60 65 - Fax: +33 1 75 43 40 70 GSM: +33 6 71 01 70 30 - mailto:bjacquin@xxxxxxxxx -- 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