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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:38:04 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Background Fsck
Message-ID:  <20010402213804.A13223@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <ybuu247ff2p.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>; from rjesup@wgate.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0400
References:  <200103302338.PAA11228@beastie.mckusick.com> <ybuu247ff2p.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>

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On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Randell Jesup wrote:
>         "fsck -y" does not always succeed (though I agree it should).  The
> points I listed do not ask a question and exit regardless.  You're correct
> that quite a few cannot happen unless there's a bug in fsck somewhere, but
> some (especially inoinfo() and ginode()) can and do happen in the case of
> true corruption.

One of the points where it fails if when it wants to put an inode into
lost+found but fails to extend/create the directory.
Unfortunately fsck -y doesn't do anything after such a situation happened.
I usually ended in such situation with fsdb clearing the inode manualy
and fsck -y finaly succeded.

Well my expiriences were with early softupdates implementations and
broken tagged firmware on a scsi drive but however this brokeness to
the filesystem was introduced fsck -y wasn't able to fix.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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