diff -urN pvfs-1.6.3-pre3/mgr/meta/md_stat.c pvfs-1.6.3-pre3_dir_rename/mgr/meta/md_stat.c
--- pvfs-1.6.3-pre3/mgr/meta/md_stat.c	Wed May 19 12:56:49 2004
+++ pvfs-1.6.3-pre3_dir_rename/mgr/meta/md_stat.c	Thu Jul 29 15:27:56 2004
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@
 		metar_p->u_stat.st_mode =
 			S_IFDIR | ((S_IRWXO | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXU | S_ISVTX | S_ISGID) & dir.dr_mode);
 
+      /* Populate the fs_ino so that directory renames work through the PVFS 
+         library */
+      metar_p->fs_ino        = dir.fs_ino;
 		metar_p->u_stat.st_uid = dir.dr_uid;
 		metar_p->u_stat.st_gid = dir.dr_gid;
 		return(0);