Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:18:44 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: background fsck did not create lost+found Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301221916470.22474-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200301221813.h0MIDUTF040121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > 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? > > It certainly couldn't be done with the background fsck, because > background fsck works on a snapshot and not the running filesystem; > thus, it cannot make any allocations -- it can only deallocate things. Still, in case you know some of your important files can be lost, you can boot the system to single user and run foreground fsck. -- -- 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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