Fixing broken filesystems

[ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett, Jr.)]

Mike Bilow:
> Matthew E Galster wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
> 
>  MEG> Is there an instruction manual somewhere on how to fix these 
>  MEG> buggers? 
> 
> I don't really know of anything good.  Remy Card, who is the principal author
> of the Second Extended Filesystem, is the lead author of a book on Linux
> internals, but it is awful because the English translation from French leaves
> much to be desired.

There was an exceptional paper on fsck written for BSD by Marshall Kirk
McKusick - I believe he was one of the developers of the Berkeley Fast
Filesystem (aka UFS).  While ext2fs is not UFS, many of the core ideas
are the same.  Enjoy.

  http://www.hu.freebsd.org/hu/doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.html


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