Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/21/2005 00:09:32
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> Other file systems have taken the root == 2 behavior and used inode 1 for
> special things.
IIRC inode 0 => file containing the inode table
inode 1 => file containing the allocation bitmap
inode 2 => swap space
(or maybe in a slightly different order)
When you find the directory entries for the those two files,
you don't want to delete them to 'recover' the space!
David
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