Well, technically fid 3 isn't 'open', only fid 2 is open - at least according to the protocol. fid 3 and fid 2 are both clones of fid 1. However, thanks for the alternative workaround. If you get a chance, can you check that my change to the client to partially fix this for the other servers doesn't break nfs-ganesha: https://github.com/ericvh/linux/commit/fddc7721d6d19e4e6be4905f37ade5b0521f4ed5 On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Dominique Martinet <