jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) (02/02/90)
We often get the message "out of gnodes" in our news partition on our Ultrix microvaxen. I read up on the Unix file system, and learned the basics of blocks and inodes and such, but uncovered no reference to "gnodes". where are these described, and how do I manipulate them to prevent usenet news from giving us so much grief? -- Jeffrey W Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu) (608)262-8686
jeff@artud2.enet.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein) (02/02/90)
In article <821@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: >We often get the message "out of gnodes" in our news partition >on our Ultrix microvaxen. I read up on the Unix file system, >and learned the basics of blocks and inodes and such, but uncovered >no reference to "gnodes". > >where are these described, and how do I manipulate them to prevent >usenet news from giving us so much grief? The gnode is the in memory data structure that defines the inode information. It actually contains more information than the inode itself, particularly relating to the ULTRIX file system. See the file /usr/include/sys/gnode.h for more information. Regarding the problem, increase the number of inodes in the filesystem that you have your news files going to (or decrease the number of files). BTW - can you send a description of the filesystem to me for future reference? -jeff -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Finkelstein Internet: jeff@artud2.enet.dec.com ULTRIX Support UUCP: ...!decuac!artud2!jeff
jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) (02/02/90)
In article <821@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: >We often get the message "out of gnodes" in our news partition >on our Ultrix microvaxen. I read up on the Unix file system, >and learned the basics of blocks and inodes and such, but uncovered >no reference to "gnodes". Gnodes are DEC's term for generic inodes. Ultrix uses a virtual file system which manipulates files using these gnodes. This is more or less the same thing as the virtual file system inodes (vnodes) used in other UNIX boxes running NFS. Beneath this virtual layer lie filesystem specific data structures and routines. For a conventional UNIX file system, these data structures will be inodes. For a VMS file system or NFS file system, these will be something else. >where are these described, and how do I manipulate them to prevent >usenet news from giving us so much grief? I would guess that 'out of gnodes' is a misleading error message that means your news partition has run out of inodes. If so, you have two options: delete files to free up inodes (say by expiring news articles more rapidly) or rebuild the filesystem with a higher inode density (check the -i option to newfs). Jim