Hello, I have not tracked down as to the exact reason, but it appears umount of v4 file system cause the directory to be revalidating causing the GETATTR. Is this revalidation really necessary on an unmount? tia, steved. -- 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