[linux-help] Re: Zombie directory problem

[Ryan Claycamp <claycamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:25 AM 5/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
> I used to have a mount point directory /nt/e, where I would
> mount an NT file system, using smbclient.  Now it is in a
> confused state where commands that expect it to be there
> say it isn't (or something is wrong with it), but mkdir says
> it already exists.  What is going on here?
>
> Here is the transcript:
>
> [root@allegheny /nt]# pwd
> /nt
> [root@allegheny /nt]# ls -la
> ls: e: Input/output error
> total 3
> drwxrwxr-x   5 root     root         1024 May 31 09:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x  41 root     root         1024 Mar  1 10:51 ..
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 14 14:21 c
> drwxrwxr-x   1 root     root          512 May 23 10:24 e2
> [root@allegheny /nt]# mkdir e
> mkdir: cannot make directory `e': File exists
> [root@allegheny /nt]# rmdir e
> rmdir: e: No such file or directory
> [root@allegheny /nt]# rm e
> rm: cannot remove `e': Input/output error
> [root@allegheny /nt]# rm -fr e
> rm: cannot remove `e': Input/output error
> [root@allegheny /nt]#
I get this from time to time as well.  What usually fixes it, is to 
smbumount the directory and re-smbmount it.  The directory might have been 
mounted and something happened to the connection between then and 
now.  Hope this helps.
Ryan
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