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[xfs-masters] Re: potential xfs_repair bug

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Subject: [xfs-masters] Re: potential xfs_repair bug
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:18:43 -0500
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
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Junfeng Yang wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> I sent the follow report out at the beginning of this month.  The report
> is about that xfs_repair creates lost+found every time it runs, even on a
> clean file system, and if crash happens while lost+found is created, the
> root directory goes corrupted.  It looks like making xfs_repair crash-safe
> is hard.  However, I'm wondering if you guys have fixed the creating
> lost+found even on a clean fs part.

I guess that's not really considered a bug at this point... although I'd 
like to change the behavior someday, it's not a very high priority, I think.

-Eric

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