diff --git a/tests/golden/lock-recover-invalidate b/tests/golden/lock-recover-invalidate
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af208381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/golden/lock-recover-invalidate
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+== starting background invalidating read/write load
+== 60s of lock recovery during invalidating load
+== stopping background load
diff --git a/tests/golden/lock-rever-invalidate b/tests/golden/lock-rever-invalidate
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/sequence b/tests/sequence
index 40c82e52..37f30647 100644
--- a/tests/sequence
+++ b/tests/sequence
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ lock-refleak.sh
 lock-shrink-consistency.sh
 lock-pr-cw-conflict.sh
 lock-revoke-getcwd.sh
+lock-recover-invalidate.sh
 export-lookup-evict-race.sh
 createmany-parallel.sh
 createmany-large-names.sh
diff --git a/tests/tests/lock-recover-invalidate.sh b/tests/tests/lock-recover-invalidate.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f06b58c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tests/lock-recover-invalidate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#
+# trigger server failover and lock recovery during heavy invalidating
+# load on multiple mounts
+#
+
+majority_nr=$(t_majority_count)
+quorum_nr=$T_QUORUM
+
+test "$quorum_nr" == "$majority_nr" && \
+        t_skip "need remaining majority when leader unmounted"
+
+test "$T_NR_MOUNTS" -lt "$((quorum_nr + 2))" && \
+        t_skip "need at least 2 non-quorum load mounts"
+
+echo "== starting background invalidating read/write load"
+touch "$T_D0/file"
+load_pids=""
+for i in $(t_fs_nrs); do
+	if [ "$i" -ge "$quorum_nr" ]; then
+		eval path="\$T_D${i}/file"
+
+		(while true; do touch $path > /dev/null 2>&1; done) &
+		load_pids="$load_pids $!"
+		(while true; do stat $path > /dev/null 2>&1; done) &
+		load_pids="$load_pids $!"
+	fi
+done
+
+# had it reproduce in ~40s on wimpy debug kernel guests
+LENGTH=60
+echo "== ${LENGTH}s of lock recovery during invalidating load"
+END=$((SECONDS + LENGTH))
+while [ "$SECONDS" -lt "$END" ]; do
+        sv=$(t_server_nr)
+        t_umount $sv
+        t_mount $sv
+	# new server had to process greeting for mount to finish
+done
+
+echo "== stopping background load"
+kill $load_pids
+
+t_pass