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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:13:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: background fsck did not create lost+found
Message-ID:  <200301221813.h0MIDUTF040121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301221112210.22474-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>
References:  <20030120183442.GA2778@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301221112210.22474-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>

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<<On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:14:47 +0100 (CET), Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl> said:

> 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.

-GAWollman


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