From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 13:21:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA02076 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:21:02 -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 NAA02057 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA18691 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:20:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA02908 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:20:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA04195 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:02:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603192102.WAA04195@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Odd-looking files in lost+found after fsck? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:02:07 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Mar 19, 96 11:32:57 am 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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Tao wrote: > NCR53c810. fsck was spewing something nasty about bad/duplicate > inodes when it was churning through one that disk. It would be nice > if the fsck output was logged somewhere for later perusal. I've also thought about it, but it's really hard to accomplish. Your only chance is to store all the messages somewhere in Real Memory (and how it will fit), until the file systems have been checked successfully, and the data could be dumped to a disk file. Storing the messages in Virtual Memory might trash an existing core dump in the swap partititon. -- 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. ;-)