Weird Problem...Empty Directories?

I'm building off of the 2.1_RC1 sources, and built a generic kernel
for my 43p-140.

I rebooted the machine with the new kernel, and everything came up
perfectly. I realized that I never changed my localtime, so I went
into /etc and instinctively typed 'ls':

moocow# cd /etc
moocow# ls
moocow#

Well, that's very strange. Nothing there? Can I cat a file?

moocow# cat fstab
/dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sd0d /usr ffs rw,softdep 1 1
/dev/sd0e /var ffs rw,softdep 1 1

Okay. That works. How about:

moocow# ls fstab 
fstab

Okay. How about:

moocow# ls fs*
ls: No match.

This is really weird. Remounting the drive read-only and fscking it
doesn't say anything strange.

If I reboot with Jochen's snapshot kernel from January, Everything seems peachy.

Weird!

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Chris Chen <[email protected]>
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.