ReiserFS and lost+found

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 23, Roger Oberholtzer managed to emit:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:45:50 -0400
> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 
> > directory. I have an all ReiserFS system at work and none of the
> > filesystems have a lost+found directory. This is as of whatever patch
> > set was necessary for kernel 2.4.5. I don't *think* Reiser uses a
> > lost+found directory, but you could ask on the Reiser lists at
> > namesys.com.
> 
> I will. Mine is for 2.4.13 (i.e., Caldera 3.1.1). The lost+found directory
> is only used by the fsck utility, not the kernel. But, it must exist and
> have lots of empty directory entries allocated. I will next check the
> reiserfs fsck utility. There is no mention of lost+found in that program's
> man pages. Next stop: source. I also see that the mklost+found program only
> references ext2. But ext3 has a lost+found as well. So I cannot trust
> that info as being complete. It is all up to the fs-specific fsck utility.

I think the argument is that the journalled metadata can be replayed,
obviating the neeed for lost+found. But, like you, I'm a tad
uncomfortable with that notion. I checked with our filesystems guy
here and he still doesn't totally trust ReiserFS. His recommendation
is good enough for me. Obviously, *no* filesystem is perfect, but I
tend to trust ext3 (ext2+journalling) or one of the more time-tested
filesystems like XFS or OpenAFS.

Kurt
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