From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 22 10:19: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267D937B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from student.uci.agh.edu.pl (student.uci.agh.edu.pl [149.156.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F7643E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winfried@student.agh.edu.pl) Received: by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 25828) id 986E864624; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:18:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905DA6F631; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:18:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:18:44 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Srzednicki X-X-Sender: winfried@student.uci.agh.edu.pl To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: background fsck did not create lost+found In-Reply-To: <200301221813.h0MIDUTF040121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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