[ale] How can I delete links that can't be seen by stat?

[James Sumners]

I have no idea what the remote file system is. Probably ext3/4.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 02:48 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>>
>> "I have an NFS mount where I send nightly backups." was meant to
>> indicate that this is all that I am seeing from the client side of
>> things. I do not have console level access to the remote device.
>
>
> I understand.  Just went where the thinking took me.
>
>
>> The administrator of the device (a QNAP system) sees the same thing
>> when SSHing to the device. So there must be something corrupt with the
>> file system (possibly?). I haven't seen anything like this before.
>
>
> Sounds like it.  I've seen this with various types of filesystem corruption
> over the years.  It used to be that corrupt filesystems were the only things
> that appeared that way, but now there are things like FUSE that will also
> make filesystems appear corrupt if you're not the user that mounted them.
> At least you can tell that it's the inodes, not the directory entries
> themselves, which are kaput, since the name of the directory entry is
> intact.
>
> Any idea what filesystem this thing is running?
>
> I can only recommend restoration or rebuilding, whatever is appropriate.
> Might not be a bad idea to ensure that the disk isn't the cause for the
> corruption, either.
>
>
>         --- Mike
>
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