Filesystem weirdness under IRIX 3.2

[Apcah2 Super-User]

This is on a Personal Iris running IRIX 3.2.  Can anyone explain what's
happened here, or better yet how I can fix it?

Script started on Tue Oct  2 10:36:12 1990
xtliris:root [33] # cd /usr/people/yang
/usr/people/yang
xtliris:root [34] # find . -print > /dev/null
find: stat() failed: ./gprlsa: No such file or directory
[ ... many similar messages deleted for brevity ... ]
find: stat() failed: ./temp: No such file or directory
xtliris:root [35] # ls -ali
total 1205
 5840 drwxr-xr-x  11 yang     user        1024 Aug 30 13:30 ./
  581 drwxr-xr-x  14 bin      bin          512 Sep 18 08:27 ../
 5842 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user         445 Aug 30 13:11 .cshrc*
13695 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user         402 Jul 18 10:30 .cshrc~*
 5850 -rw-rw-rw-   1 yang     user           9 Oct  1 11:43 .gamma
 5851 -rw-rw-rw-   1 yang     user        1536 Oct  1 11:43 .gamtables
 6138 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user         332 Aug 30 13:13 .login*
 5841 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user         290 Jul 18 10:27 .login~*
 5843 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user         577 Mar  6  1990 .profile*
 5844 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user        3584 Sep 20 01:37 .workspace/
 5853 drwxrwxrwx   3 yang     user         512 Oct  1 11:45 WorkSpace/
13729 -rw-r--r--   1 yang     user         126 Jul 18 10:32 biograf.def
13726 -rw-r--r--   1 yang     user         126 Jul 18 10:31 biograf.def~
13727 -rwxr--r--   1 yang     user         425 Jul 18 10:32 biograf_cshrc.doc*
13698 -rwxr--r--   1 yang     user         425 Jul 18 10:31 biograf_cshrc.doc~*
13728 -rwxr--r--   1 yang     user         728 Jul 18 10:32 biograf_run.csh*
13725 -rwxr--r--   1 yang     user         728 Jul 18 10:31 biograf_run.csh~*
 5848 drwxrwxrwx   3 yang     user        1536 Sep 20 22:48 dumpster/
 5943 drwxrwxrwx   1 yang     user         512 Aug 20 13:11 gprlsa/
 5974 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user      292888 Feb  1  1990 lmode*
 5971 -rw-rw-rw-   1 yang     user        1104 Feb  1  1990 lmode.f
13731 -rw-r--r--   1 yang     user         166 Jul 18 10:41 logfile.macro
13730 -rw-r--r--   1 yang     user         166 Jul 18 10:39 logfile.macro~
 5935 drwxrwxrwx   1 yang     user         512 Aug 20 13:11 maps/
 5975 -rwxr-xr-x   1 yang     user      292884 Feb  1  1990 pmode*
 5972 -rw-rw-rw-   1 yang     user         885 Feb  1  1990 pmode.f
 6263 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user         512 Jul 20 05:00 ribbon/
16550 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user         512 Jun 17 15:01 search/
 6323 drwxrwxrwx   2 yang     user        1536 Jul 18 01:22 searchre/
 6424 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user         512 Jun  5 23:34 temp/
 5904 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user        2048 Aug 28 15:59 tom/
14563 drwxr-xr-x   2 yang     user        4096 Jul 24 11:51 vaxprog/
xtliris:root [36] # cd maps
/usr/people/yang/maps
xtliris:root [37] # ls -ali
total 2
 5935 drwxrwxrwx   1 yang     user         512 Aug 20 13:11 ./
 6207 drwxrwxrwx   5 yang     user         512 Aug 23 15:45 ../
xtliris:root [38] # cd ..
/usr/people/yang
xtliris:root [39] # ls -ali
total 5
 6207 drwxrwxrwx   5 yang     user         512 Aug 23 15:45 ./
 6164 drwxr-xr-x   8 greg     user         512 May 25 11:58 ../
 6208 -rwxrwxrwx   1 greg     user           0 May  1 16:07 .dumpster*
11100 drwxrwxrwx   2 greg     user         512 Aug 23 15:45 convex/
17496 drwxrwxrwx   2 greg     user         512 Aug 23 15:45 iris/
 5868 drwxrwxrwx  11 greg     user         512 Aug 23 15:45 xplor/
xtliris:root [40] # exit
xtliris:root [41] # 
script done on Tue Oct  2 10:37:19 1990

As you can see the inode for .. in the maps directory is wrong!  How can
this be?? What sort of magic allows one to cd somedir ; cd .. and end up in a
totally different directory??  Will a single user boot, with a manual fsck
fix this?  Is the workspace doing this?  If so, I'm getting rid of it!


E. John Benjamins                                      BITNET: JOHNB at MCMASTER
Computer and Information Services,     Internet: johnb at sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca
ABB 131, McMaster University, 
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada    "You can't chop down a symmetry" -- Jane Siberry