> Hi Ted / LKML,
>
> I've got this snapshot of an ext3 filesystem with a directory that
> simply cannot be removed! (image below is just 1.2MB)
> As root:
> # wget
http://users.nagafix.co.uk/~antoine/root-broken.bz2
> # bunzip2 root-broken.bz2
> # mount -o loop -t ext2 root-broken ./tmp
> # rm -fr tmp/chroot.broken
> rm: cannot remove directory (...)
> Same result when trying to do anything to those files chown/chmod/touch:
> "Operation not permitted"
>
> Tested with e2fsprogs v1.39 on 3 systems.
> Not sure where else to post this...