utterly unremoveable file

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

How is it possible to create (actually I want to know how to remove) a
seemingly unremoveable file. Even when logged in as root and with the
file system mounted on a different mount point *nothing* seems to get
rid of it. Not 'rm', not 'mv', not 'cat /dev/null >', not chown, not
chmod. I can tar the directory and then untar it elsewhere, remove the
file from that directory, create a new tar file, rename the original
directory and untar the new tar file but I can't remove the old
directory since it still contains the offending file.

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