Hi Andrew, nfsd is still broken in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1; the following procedure is reproducable: rabbit:~# echo 2 >/proc/fs/nfsd/threads ... /var/log/daemon.log says: Sep 22 13:52:55 rabbit kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Sep 22 13:52:55 rabbit kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period Sep 22 13:52:55 rabbit portmap[3191]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs): request from unprivileged port Your -mm patches make the sunrpc client connect to the portmapper with a non-privileged source port. This is due to a change in net/sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c, which manually resets the xprt->resvport field. My tiny patch removes this line. I have no idea why the line was added in the first place, does somebody know better? Max