ReiserFS and lost+found

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:52:23 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:45:50 -0400
> begin  Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > Hallo, list,
> > 
> > Roger asked about ReiserFS and the absence of a lost+found
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> In all my years, and more different filesystems than I care to think
> about, journalling or not, _all_ partitions contain a lost+found
> directory.  Someone at reiser must think you'll never need it, but I'd
> create one (use the mklost+found utility to do it right).  Otherwise,
> where do you dump disconnected inodes (and don't tell me reiserfs will
> _never_ have this issue).

I agree. But it is up to the reiser-specific fsck to make use of lost+found.
Seems it does not. Maybe it repairs stuff and maintains the info in its
journal, thus not needing to modify the file system itself. Just a guess.

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