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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:16:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: background fsck did not create lost+found
Message-ID:  <200301222016.h0MKGXvJ041116@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030122193212.GA12401@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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<<On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:32:12 -0800, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> said:

> Unfortunately, I think it is possible that the unreferenced inode
> has not been initialized, even though it is allocated in the inode
> bitmap, so you could potentially get random junk.

That is definitely true on UFS2, which I had forgotten.  UFS2 inodes
are only initialized when they are used.

-GAWollman


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