From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 22 12:16:36 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 C54A837B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA5243F3F for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0MKGXbs041119 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:16:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0MKGXvJ041116; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:16:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:16:33 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200301222016.h0MKGXvJ041116@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: David Schultz Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: background fsck did not create lost+found In-Reply-To: <20030122193212.GA12401@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030120183442.GA2778@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <200301221813.h0MIDUTF040121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20030122193212.GA12401@HAL9000.homeunix.com> 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 < 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message