>> Presumably not all deleted files would be re-linked -- only those
>> that some application still had open at the time of the crash.
> Or binary that was still executed.  This can lead to a lot of files
> in case of e.g a crash following a system upgrade.

True.  Presumably one wouldn't use -z in a case like that.  (Though in
my experience there are usually only two or three files that do that,
probably sh and init and maybe getty.  Maybe I leave less stuff running
during my upgrades than you do.)

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