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

[Michael B. Trausch]

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