Yoicks! Probably a little bit extreme for what I need (as I can recover the data from the proc filesystem's filehandle list). Good point about the cross-filesystem thing, that explains why
ln isn't going to play ball.
What I guess I'm really looking for is a way to take an inode number (something that still has at least one link to it) and create a 'file' (aka directory entry) on the same filesystem that links to it.
fsdb sounds like something to take a look at, but it also sounds like a great way for me to
really fubar a filesystem. Methinks I'll play with it on a lab server