i have to agree, the semantics of the filesystem certainly make it 
necessary for a file to rightly disappear if that process holding a 
descriptor exits and it has otherwise been removed. if the process exits 
nicely or not is not the issue; the file should be gone. now, one can 
certainly recover them by booting single-user and deliberately relinking 
them, but fsck shouldnt resurrect them, certainly not by default. 

isildur

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> ...if by "probably" you mean "if you're mysteriously prevented from using
> single-user mode by some Strange Cosmic Force", that is.
> 
> If I delete a file, I do *not* want the system to magically reappear it
> in /lost+found just because the system crashed while something had it
> open.  I would be extremely strongly opposed to a change to fsck's
> default behaviour that caused that, and I believe that many others would
> as well.
> 
>