The latest ganesha/gluster supports seek according to, https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion2-41#section-15.11 From the given sa_offset, find the next data_content4 of type sa_what in the file. If the server can not find a corresponding sa_what, then the status will still be NFS4_OK, but sr_eof would be TRUE. If the server can find the sa_what, then the sr_offset is the start of that content. If the sa_offset is beyond the end of the file, then SEEK MUST return NFS4ERR_NXIO. For a file's filemap as, Part 1: HOLE 0x0000000000000000 ---> 0x0000000000600000 Part 2: DATA 0x0000000000600000 ---> 0x0000000000700000 Part 3: HOLE 0x0000000000700000 ---> 0x0000000001000000 SEEK(0x700000, SEEK_DATA) gets result (sr_eof:1, sr_offset:0x70000) from ganesha/gluster; SEEK(0x700000, SEEK_HOLE) gets result (sr_eof:0, sr_offset:0x70000) from ganesha/gluster. If an application depends the lseek result for data searching, it may enter infinite loop. while (1) { next_pos = lseek(fd, cur_pos, seek_type); if (seek_type == SEEK_DATA) { seek_type = SEEK_HOLE; } else { seek_type = SEEK_DATA; } if (next_pos == -1) { return ; cur_pos = next_pos; } The lseek syscall always gets 0x70000 from nfs client for those two cases, but, if underlying filesystem is ext4/f2fs, or the nfs server is knfsd, the lseek(0x700000, SEEK_DATA) gets ENXIO. I wanna to know, should I fix the ganesha/gluster as knfsd return ENXIO for the first case? or should I fix the nfs client to return ENXIO for the first case? thanks, Kinglong Mee