On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 05:23:16PM -0700, William Olson wrote: > [root at lustreclient mnt]# strace -f -p 15964 (...) > lstat("/mnt/lustre_mail_fs", 0x7fff4bd4b2b0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) When it comes to inexplicable permission problems, have you checked if SELinux is turned off on the NFS server? Regards, Daniel.