When you resurrect a file system entity that has been flattened to a deep-freeze level, the file system attempts to reconnect the surrogate instance to the physical entity to which it refers. If the file system cannot make a connection, the surrogate is invalid and any file system operations on the surrogate generate an exception. However, non-file system operations performed on the surrogate, such as an equality comparison, are still legal operations and do not generate exceptions.
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