[ale] lost+found

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

What happens if I delete lost+found on an ext3 partition?  Is it really
necessary to have?

Why?  It's a stable partition, rarely changing.  This partition is
exposed via ftp and http, and as such some browsers and other tools try
to "crawl" a level deeper for caching reasons.  The lost+found directory
is owned solely by root, so ftpd and apache users don't have access...
but my logs fill up with errors about their denied attempts.  

-Jim P.