> Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > One comment here - the lost+found directory is removed by xfs_repair,
> > so if you run repair and it reconnects some files, then running repair
> > again without moving those files somewhere else will result in them
> > getting reconnected again.
>
> so it is a bit different in this aspect to a classic ufs - right
> (or this does no longer cry about it) ... but i'm now really
> convinced - i think it connects lost inodes to lost+found
> but the second run they are connected and don't need to
> be reconnected again - do i miss anything here ?
Well, not quite, if there are inodes in lost+found which are not connected
anywhere else, then xfs_repair ends up disconnecting them again, it then
proceeds to find them and reconnect them. A bit braindead I suppose, but
that is what happens.
Steve
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