fsck and lost+found space

[wb at freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:54:35PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote..
> On Wed, 2004-Aug-11 08:17:39 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> >* Charles Sprickman <spork_(_at_)_fasttrackmonkey_(_dot_)_com> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]:
> >> I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found
> >> directory on another device, but no such luck.
> 
> This isn't possible - all fsck does is to create a directory entry
> pointing to the file.  You could add an option to fsck to allow you
> to specify the directory name but you are still limited by fsck's
> inability to use indirect blocks for the fsck directory.

Is this the same thing I remember from SysV days where we used to create
a ton of files in lost+found and then delete them so that in case fsck
ever needed dir entries it could re-use them?

(memory is very dim..)

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