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From: howie@cunixc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: panic: rename: lost dir entry
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 12:04:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 12:04:41 1987
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Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)

We had a similar crash at Columbia, under Ultrix 2.0 on an 8700.
Since it only happened once, we didn't think much of it.  Anyway, to
get rid of the duplicate directory entries, i had to:

1) move all of the files in them somewhere else.
2) write a quick program to unlink one of them.   The directory has an
	extra link, so rmdir won't remove it, and it is a directory,
	so rm won't touch it... The program was just a single call to
	unlink.
3) rmdir the second directory.
4) rename things back to the way they should have been.

We were not running nfs at the time, so it coundn't have been caused
by our file system becoming a network.

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