Hello again, linux-v4.8-rcN has a commit 337684a 2016-08-07 fs: return EPERM on immutable inode I am afraid NFS should follow the same behaviour. In other words, fs/nfs/dir.c:nfs_do_access() should return -EPERM when MAY_WRITE on an immutable inode. Currently it returns EACCES. J. R. Okajima -- 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