I have a Debian/Squeeze NFS server running kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 and a Debian/Unstable NFS client. I just did "rm -rf" on a directory containing 4.2G of files that was mounted via NFS. It was a directory with three large files which were MP4 files captured from digital TV, I had watched them all recently with mplayer. df didn't report any more free space. To get the space back I ended up commenting out the line from /etc/exports, running "exportfs -r", then umounting and mounting it. I didn't check whether the space was free after running "exportfs -r", it probably was. It seems that I was caught by the issue of open file handles. NFS is stateless so it doesn't necessarily process deletion for some time to handle the case of a NFS client that is running processes with open file handles. How long is this supposed to go for? Can I force NFS to give up such caching when I need the space sooner than NFS will free it? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/