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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:27:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: lost+found ???
Message-ID:  <199603220827.JAA17816@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603211848.TAA13224@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 21, 96 07:48:53 pm

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> inode #3  used to be  --  and still is  in several  Unixes -- reserved  for
> lost+found  directories, populated   at _newfs_  fime,   not by fsck.  That
> enable fsck  to save recovered  inodes  even if  the  fs is full (directory
> entries are pre-created too). 
> 
> Why don't we use the same  method as anyone ? Is  there a _good_ reason not
> to do it at newfs time ?

Since nobody was objecting this time (and yes, i knew that i've
basically been picking Terry's argumentation here :), i'm going to see
to get the -DLOSTDIR in newfs/mkfs.c functional again.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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