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Can't delete or look into a directory

I have an old directory I haven't been able to delete or look inside for years.
It's an old Spideroak directory and I can't remove it by doing
rm -Rf
as root.
When I try to remove it or do
ls
it hangs forever with no error message.
Any suggestions?

What does 'stat /path/to/directoryname; lsattr /path/to/directoryname' return?

Code:

$ stat .SpiderOak/

  File: «.SpiderOak/»

  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096  directorio

Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 19333358    Links: 3

Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  darwin)  Gid: ( 1000/  darwin)

Access: 2012-04-04 20:53:37.000000000 -0300

Modify: 2011-02-22 15:14:22.000000000 -0300

Change: 2011-03-11 10:57:13.000000000 -0300



$ lsattr .SpiderOak/

--------------I---- .SpiderOak/fs_notify

Inside that, I have another directory

Code:

$ stat fs_notify/

  File: «fs_notify/»

  Size: 156733440      Blocks: 306432    IO Block: 4096  directorio

Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 19333361    Links: 2

Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  darwin)  Gid: ( 1000/  darwin)

Access: 2012-04-04 20:54:19.000000000 -0300

Modify: 2011-11-15 22:51:29.000000000 -0300

Change: 2011-11-15 22:51:29.000000000 -0300

Now that I see it, when I try to do lsattr on this last dir, I get an endless list of .txt files (perhaps Spideroak's logs). I mean (almost) literally endless. Since I run lsattr a few minutes ago the output hasn't stopped !!!!

Hmm, that looks like a capital 'I', but according the man age here http://linux.die.net/man/1/chattr and tested on a RHEL5 box, lowercase 'i' is the Immutable value.
However, check the manpages on the system in question ...

The main problem, however, seems to be the endless list of txt files. The ls command went on for at least half an hour until I killed it.:confused:

DONE:
I was wrong from the beginning: it's not that the directory could not be deleted. It just took 38 minutes to do it !!!
Thanks unSpawn and chrism01.