| From: | Brian Pitts <bdp(at)uga(dot)edu> |
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| To: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Ignore lost+found when checking if a directory is empty |
| Date: | 2011-08-09 18:52:25 |
| Message-ID: | 4E4181E9.2010902@uga.edu |
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When an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem is mounted directly on the PGDATA directory, initdb will refuse to run because it sees the
lost+found directory that mke2fs created and assumes the PGDATA directory is already in use for something other than PostgreSQL.
Attached is a patch against master which will cause a directory that contains only lost+found to still be treated as empty.
This was previously proposed in 2001; see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-03/msg01194.php
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Brian Pitts
Systems Administrator | EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center
706-542-1447 | bdp(at)uga(dot)edu | http://eupathdb.org
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| Ignore-lost-found-when-checking-if-a-directory-is-empty.patch | text/x-patch | 0 bytes |
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