diff -urN pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4/kpvfs_v1_xfer.c pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4-working/kpvfs_v1_xfer.c
--- pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4/kpvfs_v1_xfer.c	Fri May 14 14:30:08 2004
+++ pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4-working/kpvfs_v1_xfer.c	Thu Jul 29 13:50:13 2004
@@ -1581,6 +1581,7 @@
     char *fn;
 	 void *ptr = NULL;
 	 static int do_open_called = 0;
+    ireq iodreq;
 
 	 if (do_open_called == 0) {
 		 do_open_called = 1;
@@ -1693,7 +1694,39 @@
 		 /* Set the default preallocation count to the number of IOD servers of this open */
 		 default_alloc = ct;
 	 }
-    return fp;
+
+   /*
+    * Send NOOP to all IODs to refresh any stale socket descriptors that have
+    * resulted from the MGR or IODs being bounced.
+    */
+   memset(&iodreq, 0, sizeof(iodreq));
+   
+   iodreq.majik_nr   = IOD_MAJIK_NR;
+   iodreq.release_nr = PVFS_RELEASE_NR;
+   iodreq.type       = IOD_NOOP;
+   iodreq.dsize      = 0;
+   
+   if (active_p == NULL)
+   {
+      active_p = jlist_new();
+   }
+   
+   initset(&socks);		/* clears out socket set */
+   
+   error = build_simple_jobs(fp, &iodreq);
+   if (error < 0)
+   {
+      PDEBUG(D_LIB,"error building simple job %d",error);
+      goto open_pvfs_file_error;
+   }
+   
+   while (jlist_empty(active_p) == 0)
+   {
+      /* Do the jobs.  Don't handle error conditions.  Just continue. */
+      do_jobs(active_p, &socks, -1);
+   }
+   
+   return fp;
 
 open_pvfs_file_error:
     if (p != NULL) {
diff -urN pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4/pvfs_v1_xfer.c pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4-working/pvfs_v1_xfer.c
--- pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4/pvfs_v1_xfer.c	Tue Feb 10 13:25:40 2004
+++ pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-pre3-linux-2.4-working/pvfs_v1_xfer.c	Thu Jul 29 14:01:11 2004
@@ -1572,6 +1572,7 @@
 	char *fn;
 	void *ptr = NULL;
 	static int do_open_called = 0;
+	ireq iodreq;
 
 	if (do_open_called == 0) {
 		do_open_called = 1;
@@ -1679,6 +1680,38 @@
 		/* Set the default preallocation count to the number of IOD servers of this open */
 		default_alloc = ct;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Send NOOP to all IODs to refresh any stale socket descriptors that have
+	 * resulted from the MGR or IODs being bounced.
+	 */
+	memset(&iodreq, 0, sizeof(iodreq));
+
+	iodreq.majik_nr   = IOD_MAJIK_NR;
+	iodreq.release_nr = PVFS_RELEASE_NR;
+	iodreq.type       = IOD_NOOP;
+	iodreq.dsize      = 0;
+
+	if (active_p == NULL)
+	{
+		active_p = jlist_new();
+	}
+
+	initset(&socks);		/* clears out socket set */
+
+	error = build_simple_jobs(fp, &iodreq);
+	if (error < 0)
+	{
+		PDEBUG(D_LIB,"error building simple job %d",error);
+		goto open_pvfs_file_error;
+	}
+
+	while (jlist_empty(active_p) == 0)
+	{
+		/* Do the jobs.  Don't handle error conditions.  Just continue. */
+		do_jobs(active_p, &socks, -1);
+	}
+
 	return fp;
 
 open_pvfs_file_error: