> ls can't access the files either, so I don't see how that could rectify
> anything. The entire directory becomes inaccessible. This happened to
> /lib once. Nasty.
No-one can access the files once the caches are hosed. Purge the
inode/dentry caches and retry.
> I'd like to be able to use something like reiserfs, especially when
> developing (it reduces boot time a lot). However to call it 'stable' on
> 2.4.4 is simply wrong. If/when the nfs fix gets merged and tested
> *then* it stands a chance of being called stable.
Does that actually apply to 2.4.4 or rather to 2.2.19?
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