Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Zilvinas Valinskas
2001-08-06T02:14:42Z

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:11:12PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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.

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