On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:58:45PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > touch won't keep the file open. There is no open state once touch has > finished executing. > > What you have exposed above is a _server_ bug. The server is _not_ > allowed to assume that the client will cache an open owner forever once > it no longer holds any open state using that open owner. We had a loong > discussion about this on the mailing list a few years ago with David > Robinson being the person who formulated the above rule. Chuck, what server are you testing against? I don't think the Linux server does the above, so it probably does need fixing. --b. -- 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