is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

[Freminlins]

On 11/01/07, Jeff Mohler <speedtoys.racing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The basic reason is that a ../.. walk invalidates cached metadata, and
> you end up with a pipe full of getattr's all of the time.  Freebsd-fs
> has discussed this a bit, but no fixing is coming soon.  We use linux
> to compile builds, we'd like to use Freebsd, but linux on Filers via
> NFS is about 3x faster than the same builds on Fbsd to the same filer.
>   ../.. baby.
>


Did you try different mount options on the FreeBSD clients. I have no idea,
but Linux may have different defaults.

Frem.