Subject: Re: FS clean bit, is it reliable?
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 11/05/1995 21:44:13
On Mon, 06 Nov 1995 11:18:05 +1100
Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au> wrote:
[ Trimmed that obscene Cc: list :-) ]
> I don't think I've ever seen it place files in lost+found (though II
> could of course have missed or fogotten a case or two). I *know* that
> I have seen it many times find "unreferenced files" with non-zero
> size, and it's cleared them instead of reconnected them.
I've seen things get places in lost+found before, after serious
filesystem spammage (an HP-IB disk on my FTP server was failing, and it
happened to contain the /usr filesystem). I think the things you're
seeing are files that have been explicitly unlinked, and their ref count
has dropped to 0.
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