From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 22 00:56:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA24340 for current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24152 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA04105 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:50:42 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03135 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:50:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA17816 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:27:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603220827.JAA17816@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: lost+found ??? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:27:55 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603211848.TAA13224@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 21, 96 07:48:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > inode #3 used to be -- and still is in several Unixes -- reserved for > lost+found directories, populated at _newfs_ fime, not by fsck. That > enable fsck to save recovered inodes even if the fs is full (directory > entries are pre-created too). > > Why don't we use the same method as anyone ? Is there a _good_ reason not > to do it at newfs time ? Since nobody was objecting this time (and yes, i knew that i've basically been picking Terry's argumentation here :), i'm going to see to get the -DLOSTDIR in newfs/mkfs.c functional again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)