Why did cifs mount point started displaying file attributes as "?--------- ? ? ? ? ? <directory>"?
Issue
[root@server1 mtpt]# pwd
/mtpt
[root@server1 mtpt]# ls -ltr
ls: reading directory .: No such device or address
[root@server1 mtpt]# cd
[root@server1 ~]# mount /mtpt
/sbin/mount.cifs: failed to stat /mtpt: No such device or address
[root@server1 ~]# ls -ltrd /mtpt
ls: /mtpt: No such device or address
[root@server1 ~]# rm -rf /mtpt
rm: cannot lstat `mtpt': No such device or address
[root@server1 ~]# ls -ltr / | grep mtpt
? ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? mtpt
[root@server1 ~]# cd /mtpt
[root@server1 mtpt]# ls -ltr
ls: reading directory .: No such device or address total 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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