From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 23 00:07:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08755 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiley.csusb.edu (wiley.csusb.edu [139.182.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08749 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rmallory@localhost) by wiley.csusb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id AAA27044; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:11:09 -0800 From: Rob Mallory Message-Id: <199603230811.AAA27044@wiley.csusb.edu> Subject: Re: lost+found ??? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:11:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603230444.PAA08953@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 23, 96 03:44:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] 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 > > >> >Of course if you mount async, all bets are off. 8-(. > >> > >> I.e., lost+found only works when it is least needed :-). > > >Not true. If you are running async, you are obviously willing > >to newfs the partition when you reboot after a crash. I've only > >barely refrained from suggesting we change the option name from > >"async" to "i_am_willing_to_newfs_the_partition_after_a_crash". > > Yes, I expect to lose it all after every 1000-100000 crashes. > Ummm.. I think I might lean towards Terry's mount -o flag mentioned above... knowing which filesystems to "risk" (/usr/obj is good) and having current backups is good. Then again, I see newfs/restore as the perfect "speed-disk" defragger, and -async as a perfect excuse to defrag my disks every now and then!! recently, I defragg'd after it lost the "." directory of my /usr/obj async mounted filesystem. fuzz-check put a new lost+found in the newly created (empty) directory of the async filesystem,, but I laughed when 'df' reported 78% usage! hehe! ((hey--I noticed recently you cant newfs a mounted filesystem like you could about 4 months ago.:( I defrag'd my / one time when newfs'ing what I thought to be a new drive... it was rather cool doing a 'cat etc/*' after realizing what i really newfs'd, and watching the buffer-cache work really well! it actually still "had" a bunch of files for a few seconds before a major panic! hehe.. freebsd is fun. -Rob Mallory