+1. Files that are moved are inaccessible by normal means and there's little reason to keep two copies of them around. A sys-admin could later either remove them, or try to reassemble them and return them into place. Leaving them in their original location just makes it harder to clean them up.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Hairong Kuang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: fsck with the move option > > After I read the fsck code, I realize that if we run fsck > with the move option, the tool actually copies the corrupted > files to "/lost+found" block by block. I feel that it is very > expensive especially with large corrupted file system. Shall > we simply do a rename, I mean, moving corrupted files to > "/lost+found"? Rename is a namespace mutation so it is much > more efficent. > > Hairong >
