Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Jan Srzednicki
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Schultz wrote: First two entries clearly correspond to the missing file, which should have been put in /home/lost+found. But, the poroblem is that no lost+found directory was created, while it should (as fsck_ffs(8) says). I guess its a bug, probably in the

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:14:47 +0100 (CET), Jan Srzednicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Jan Srzednicki
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Jan Srzednicki wrote: 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Garrett Wollman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:14:47 +0100 (CET), Jan Srzednicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:53 AM +0600 1/23/03, Max Khon wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Jan Srzednicki wrote: 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:43:37PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: 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

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:32:12 -0800, David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Unfortunately, I think it is possible that the unreferenced inode has not been initialized, even though it is allocated in the inode bitmap, so you could potentially get random junk. That is definitely true on UFS2,

background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-20 Thread Jan Srzednicki
Hello, After building new world and installing new kernel, I rebooted my machine to launch a new kernel. The system mysteriously failed to flush 22 disk buffers, and after reboot fsck was launched. I have the following partitions: / - UFS1 /usr - UFS2 /home - UFS1 This massive disk mangling

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 20), Jan Srzednicki said: After building new world and installing new kernel, I rebooted my machine to launch a new kernel. The system mysteriously failed to flush 22 disk buffers, and after reboot fsck was launched. [...] This massive disk mangling occured on /usr,

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-20 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Jan Srzednicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This massive disk mangling occured on /usr, but still, one file in /home got lost - which happened to be quite important file. Background fsck logged: Jan 20 16:06:30 stronghold root: /dev/ad1s1d: UNREF FILE I=1723065 OWNER=winfried MODE=100644

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:However, when you are saving a new version of an important file, :you need to be careful that the new version (and its directory :entry) hits the disk before the old one goes away. I know that vi :saves files in a safe way, whereas ee and emacs do not. (Emacs :introduces only a small race,

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-20 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :However, when you are saving a new version of an important file, :you need to be careful that the new version (and its directory :entry) hits the disk before the old one goes away. I know that vi :saves files in a safe way, whereas ee and emacs do