Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 12:50:33 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: mrm@sceard.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: lost+found ??? Message-ID: <199603230150.MAA02055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>On the subject of the 8k, Bruce is wrong about the requirements: the >most you have to deal with is the number of files allowed to be a >problem with properly ordered updates: basically, one directory >worth of names... and in that case, you'll get blocks back from >the directory that died. It's still possible to overflow the 16 >additional (reserved) blocks, but it's unlikely. >Of course if you mount async, all bets are off. 8-(. I.e., lost+found only works when it is least needed :-). I think you can lose more than one directory if an inode block for a directory becomes unreadable. I wonder if fsck handles huge directories better than ufs. Bruce
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