xfs mknod bug?

[Jim Buzbee <James.Buzbee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running an xfs patched 2.4.8 kernel on an x86 platform and am having
repeatable problems with the mknod command on an xfs partition.  Here's
an example :

# mknod test c 1 2
# sync
# sync
# sync
# ls -al test
crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   2 Dec 14 14:57 test

I then reset the system by cycling power.  Upon reboot :

# ls -al test
crw-r--r--   1 root     root       0,   0 Dec 14  2001 test

If I do a "clean" reboot and unmount the partition normally, I do not
get this behavior.  Is this a known issue? 

Thanks,
Jim Buzbee
Echostar Technologies