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Re: CVS commit: src



On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> Other file systems have taken the root == 2 behavior and used inode 1 for 
> special things.

IIRC inode 0 => file containing the inode table
     inode 1 => file containing the allocation bitmap
     inode 2 => swap space
(or maybe in a slightly different order)

When you find the directory entries for the those two files,
you don't want to delete them to 'recover' the space!

        David

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