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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 13:31:30 -0700
Organization: Me
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J Wunsch wrote:
[ ... using async mounts ... ]
] t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) wrote:
] > Anyone installing a new OS version onto a partition (or for
] > that matter system) containing data they cannot afford to
] > lose needs their head examining anyway.
]
] Btw., pre-existing data are not that much on a risk at all, only
] newly written files.
Or preexisting files in the directory block in which the new file
names are stored. They are at risk of going to lost+found following
a directory compaction on a name insert.
If the new name being added is very short, this could affect
nearly any existing directory block.
If you install into a lone directory with no other contents,
then what you say is true. Provided the lone directory was
created while the FS was mounted sync, so that it does not
put the directory it was created in at risk.
8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.