On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:34:07PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > I'd like to give the best possible chance to recover data but I don't > really feel like having to approve 65534 reconnections. I'd like to use > the "-y" option, but have fsck exit if it can't attach the orphan file. > Then I can move the "lost+found" directory out of the way and start over > with a new one.
Not helpful for you directly, but: I wonder if we should modify fsck to stop linking there at (say) 0xf000 links and start creating sub-directories where to link further inodes. Martin
