Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:14:47 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: background fsck did not create lost+found Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301221112210.22474-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20030120183442.GA2778@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Schultz wrote: > > First two entries clearly correspond to the missing file, which should > > have been put in /home/lost+found. But, the poroblem is that no lost+found > > directory was created, while it should (as fsck_ffs(8) says). I guess its > > a bug, probably in the background fsck code. Still, is there any way to > > reclaim the file now, besides running strings(1) on the whole partition? > > Consider what happens when you remove a large directory tree. > Thousands of directory entries may be removed, but in the > softupdates case, the inodes will stick around a bit longer. The > same also applies to files that have been intentionally unlinked > but are still open. To avoid a syndrome where all these thousands > of files end up in lost+found after a crash or power failure, fsck > just removes them on softupdates-enabled filesystems. Would that be a big problem to allow some fsck option not to erase all these softupdates-pending inodes, but to put them in lost+found as usual? The default behaviour is unchanged, yet there is a way to reclaim lost files. -- -- wrzask --= v =-- Winfried --=-- GG# 3838383 --=-- JS500-RIPE -- -- w@dream.vg --- w@303.krakow.pl --===-- http://violent.dream.vg/ --- --=< Ride the wild wind - push the envelope, don't sit on the fence, --- -- Ride the wild wind - live life on the razor's edge! >=-- Queen -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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