Hello!
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:17:44PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> When I tried this, reiserfsck with -S scanned the whole disk, as expected.
> Reiserfsck without -S said it would scan roughly half of my disk. That led
Yes. It scans all the blocks that are marked as "used" in bitmap.
> me to conclude that whatever it does, it doesn't just use the blocks which
> are actually used for the tree at the moment.
How can it know? It must find all the lost blocks too.
> How does reiserfsck determine which blocks contain leaf nodes, anyway?
If it finds tree node header in some block, it thinks this is a tree node
and adds it into the tree.
Bye,
Oleg
