[OT] Re: [Debtags-devel] libtagcoll updates

Benjamin Mesing bensmail@gmx.net
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:18:42 +0200


Hello,

I don't know much about this but I can speak from some bad
experience :-(

> On another related question: is this a source for lost+found files?
> "unlinked inodes" - I guess that this will be a typical case. 
I got my lost+found filled up with 1.5 GB after running reiserfsck after
what seemed like a massive failure in ReiserFS (btw. this happend short
after a kernel update from 2.6.7 to 2.6.11.4 - but I don't know if this
was the reason).

> Does
> this also happen with journalled filesystem, 
See above...

How does deleting work anyways? I've looked through my notes and think
there is a "block" bitmap (or at least there was

Is there any mechanism in marking a block as deleted (perhaps an
unused/used bit in its inode?) or is it simply done by removing all
links to this one? If the latter is th