Lost files + indentical Foldernames on XFS Partition

[Eric Sandeen]

Steffen Knauf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> today i have a strange behavior. I have a a directory which contains 
> lots of indentical Folders with the same Name and Inode.

What kernel?

Can you cut and paste what you see?

> I don't create Hardlinks or something else. On the other side some files 
> are suddenly vanished. A "ls -al" result in the following error: 
> "Access  to bla not possible: File or Directory not found."
> I don't find some Errormessages in the logfile. I don't know whether a 
> xfs_check make sense.

xfs_repair -n will check the filesystem without actually modifying anything.

-Eric