Unclean Shutdown Created Circle Symbolic link in Public Folder

A recent power outage caused my EX4100 to experience an unclean shutdown. After restarting, the disks and RAID configuration are OK. The Disk Scan fails.

I’m trying to get assistance with fixing this condition in an other thread:

[Updated Instructions for Fsck on the EX4100 running 2.41.116](https://Updated Instructions for Fsck on the EX4100 running 2.41.116)

As a side effect of the shutdown, there as a issue with the Public share. In the Public folder there was another Public folder that contained a copy of the Public folder, etc…

Logging on the system via SSH, I discovered that there was a symbolic link in the Public folder that pointed to itself:

root@Filer01 Public # ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 26 20:18 /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/Public → /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public

This created an infinite strings of nested Public folders.

Once I figured out what I was dealing with, I deleted the symbolic.

root@Filer01 Public # rm /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/Public

This eliminated that problem.

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