I have not looked at how NFS4 handles its lock lease yet. Could someone pass few pointers ? The specific question I have is the perpetuity issue - that is, how does (or will) NFS4 lock lease prevent a lock owner from taking the lock for an extended duration (or even indefinitely) ? Thanks, Wendy -- 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