" " == Rosario Turrisi <turrisi@pd.infn.it> writes:
            

     > Hi, I have a fileserver from Raidtec which uses ext2
     > filesystems.  Due to a double (!!!) disk failure, I had the
     > strange behaviour that a directory is seen as a whole file,
     > with strange attributes, like "?r--r-sr-T" and changed
     > owner/group.  I believe that an operation like "debugfs" could
     > fix the problem, but it cannot be done (it seems) on an
     > nfs-mounted filesystem (I cannot enter the fileserver system as
     > it is "raidtec-copyrighted").  Any suggestion very very
     > welcome.  Cheers,

Errr... Why is fixing it on the server itself (where "debugfs" is more
likely to work) not an option?

The NFS protocol has no support for doing low-level disk ioctls on the
server so you can forget doing this sort of thing on the client.

Cheers,
  Trond