inode #1

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue Apr 18 06:34:52 AEST 1989


>...and inode 1 was reserved for bad block handling.  This method of
>bad block management was never widely implemented, if anyone ever actually
>did it at all.

As I remember, it was half-implemented in the V7 "mkfs"; there was a
routine that would be called for every data block in the file system
and, if it returned true, the block would be assigned to inode 1.  (It
looks as if that's still there in the S5R3 "mkfs".)  However, the
routine always returned false....



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