On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> > Would that be a big problem to allow some fsck option not to erase all
> > these softupdates-pending inodes, but to put them in lost+found as usual?
>
> It certainly couldn't be done with the background fsck, because
> background fsck works on a snapshot and not the running filesystem;
> thus, it cannot make any allocations -- it can only deallocate things.

Still, in case you know some of your important files can be lost, you can
boot the system to single user and run foreground fsck.

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