Are you using the old filesystem format (the one compatible with Sunos 
bootblocks)? I remember switching disk, and in the process changing to 
the new filesystem, at about the same time the problems disappeared. We 
don't upgrade that often, so it is hard to tell what made everything work 
again.

Peter

On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> Hi,
>    I've been trying to build myself a kernel for a while now, but I'm getting
> a strange problem with any new kernels that I make..  if I make any change to
> the directory structure, the entire directory disappears (including . and ..)
> and I can't do directory searches anymore in that directory. ~