Scribbling feverishly on April 23, Roger Oberholtzer managed to emit: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:45:50 -0400 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > directory. I have an all ReiserFS system at work and none of the > > filesystems have a lost+found directory. This is as of whatever patch > > set was necessary for kernel 2.4.5. I don't *think* Reiser uses a > > lost+found directory, but you could ask on the Reiser lists at > > namesys.com. > > I will. Mine is for 2.4.13 (i.e., Caldera 3.1.1). The lost+found directory > is only used by the fsck utility, not the kernel. But, it must exist and > have lots of empty directory entries allocated. I will next check the > reiserfs fsck utility. There is no mention of lost+found in that program's > man pages. Next stop: source. I also see that the mklost+found program only > references ext2. But ext3 has a lost+found as well. So I cannot trust > that info as being complete. It is all up to the fs-specific fsck utility.
I think the argument is that the journalled metadata can be replayed, obviating the neeed for lost+found. But, like you, I'm a tad uncomfortable with that notion. I checked with our filesystems guy here and he still doesn't totally trust ReiserFS. His recommendation is good enough for me. Obviously, *no* filesystem is perfect, but I tend to trust ext3 (ext2+journalling) or one of the more time-tested filesystems like XFS or OpenAFS. Kurt -- Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
