On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 12:48:54 -0700, Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> FFS will never set a directory ino == 0 at a location other than
> the first entry in a directory, but fsck will do so to get rid
> of an unwanted entry. The readdir routines know to skip over an
> ino == 0 entry no matter where in the directory it is found, so
> applications will never see such entries. It would be a fair
> amount of work to change fsck to `do the right thing', as the
> checking code is given only the current entry with which to
> work. I am of the opinion that you should simply accept that
> mid-directory block ino == 0 is acceptable rather than trying to
> `fix' the problem.
I don't have sufficient technical knowledge to know which of you is
right; I would just ask that filesystem corruption caused by
restarting from a hung system not cause a panic <g>.
--
Michael D. Harnois bilocational bivocational
Washburn, Iowa Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice
that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
