[haiku-development] Re: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1

David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I guess I should rethink when and how BFS trims back directory 
> > inodes.
> > The haiku sources have 85556 files today, and over 20000 
> > directories.
> > So the maxium loss should be around 1.2 GB which is a bit much to 
> > be
> > acceptable. If directories would only preallocate 4K, the maximum 
> > loss
> > would only be 80 MB which I think is quite okay and would be a 
> > pretty
> > simple solution.
> 80Mb slack space is better than what I am seeing.

This is what you should now see, ie. with a current revision :-)

> Is this 80Mb lost forever or will checkfs recover it?  deleting the 
> directory?

It might be lost theoretically (depends on what happens with the 
directory), but deleting would always recover it.
I could also have BFS trim inodes on load when needed, or have at least 
checkfs do that.

Bye,
   Axel.

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