Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Matthias Andree
2001-08-03T18:11:24Z

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Stephen Tweedie wrote:

> > We don't need all the paths, and not any specific path, just a path.
>
> Exactly, because fsync makes absolutely no gaurantees about the
> namespace. So a lost+found path is quite sufficient.

MTA authors don't share this. lost+found is "invisible" for the
application that created the file.

I have yet to meet a distribution which scans lost+found at boot time
and syslogs found files or sends root a mail.

So, effectively, lost+found will NOT be sufficient. Discarding file
names at will is not a good thing.

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Matthias Andree