On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 08:53, Eric Sproul wrote:
> Would temporarily renaming the directory cause its inode to change?  How
> about copying it to a different file, deleting the original, then
> renaming the copy to the original name?  I'm trying to think of
> something I could do that would not require a reboot/fsck, but would get
> the directory off of that inode.

Copying the directory tree to a temp. name, deleting the original, and
moving the copy back to the original name freed the inode that was
causing the problem.  The DLE was backed up this morning without
incident.

Thanks Jon!
Eric