This particular patch is in the sequence for part 3 which will rely on I/O
being uniform for each piece of metadata.It changes the behaviour of lost+found quite substantially in xfs_repair. Currently, xfs_repair deletes any lost+found directories in phase 3, which will orphan inodes that still reside in lost+found. During phase 6, it's recreated and repopulated with orphaned inodes. When one leaves inodes in lost+found between successive runs, it can cause some confusion as xfs_repair keeps on discovering orphaned inodes. This change leaves any lost+found directory or inode alone during phases 3/4 (other than checking for normal consistancy). During phase 6, if it finds lost+found in the root inode, it checks that it's a directory and is consistant and remembers it. If it's corrupted, it's junked or repaired like any other directory. If it's not a directory, it's junked. During the last part of phase 6, if any orphaned inodes are found, it will place them in the previously located lost+found directory, or create it and place them.
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