On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:59:56AM +1200, m.c.wilkins at massey.ac.nz wrote: > > someone mentioned adding "option lookup-unhashed on". So I tried that > > and then went through and manually stat()ed each file that was > > originally on the filesystem and only then did the files reappear. I > > can't imagine what one would do if there were several million files on > > the filesystem prior to an expansion? > > i believe you do, but normally one does the stat'ing by doing a > ls -lR <mnt point> > /dev/null Well that wouldn't be so bad if it actually worked :) My attempts at any file access (either via ls -lR or similar) failed to yield the lost files. Mohan
