diff -Naur pvfs-kernel/dir.c pvfs-kernel-patched/dir.c
--- pvfs-kernel/dir.c	Tue Mar 14 17:42:47 2000
+++ pvfs-kernel-patched/dir.c	Tue Jul 18 14:04:30 2000
@@ -525,14 +525,20 @@
 	PDEBUG(D_DIR, "pvfs_dentry_revalidate called for %s.\n",
 	dentry->d_name.name);
 
-	if (inode == NULL) goto dentry_bad;
+	if (inode == NULL){
+		PDEBUG(D_DIR, "pvfs_dentry_revalidate found NULL inode.\n");
+		goto dentry_bad;
+	}
 
-	if (is_bad_inode(inode)) goto dentry_bad;
+	if (is_bad_inode(inode)){
+		PDEBUG(D_DIR, "pvfs_dentry_revalidate found bad inode.\n");
+		goto dentry_bad;
+	}
 
-	return 0; /* everything is ok */
+	return 1; /* everything is ok */
 
 dentry_bad:
-	return 1; /* bad; needs to be revalidated */
+	return 0; /* bad; needs to be revalidated */
 }