> You tried a prepatch in Linus's testing directory, even if your
> machine sprouted rocket boosters and took off to Mars I would still
> say you got what you deserved...
not so. if a directory such as new/ for example is missing the . and ..
entries, trying to rm -rf new/ will hang and it *will* drive the load up
substantially.
this has been a sore spot for me for a long time. trying to fix a
filesystem that is broken hard like this with really messed up inode
values is enough to infuriate anyone.
the rm process is not killable by any means, and a reboot is required.
i brought this up well over a year ago and nobody responded except others
that complained of similar experiences.
david
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