hastings@coherent.com (Reed Hastings) (02/13/90)
I have heard that there was an old BSD bug such that if you let your
disk get more than 90% full you were likely to "lose files" or
"create garbage inodes" or similar ugly things.
Can anyone confirm & clarify this, and most importantly, comment
on whether it still exists in SunOS 4.x.
Many thanks,
-Reed.
Reed Hastings
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VOICE: (415) 493-8805richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (02/14/90)
>I have heard that there was an old BSD bug such that if you let your >disk get more than 90% full you were likely to "lose files" or >"create garbage inodes" or similar ugly things. It's nonsense. I don't think I've ever seen a disk less than 90% full :-( The rumour probably relates to the fact the the Berkeley filesystem reserves 10% of its space to improve performance. (Root is not subject to this restriction, hance it can go on creating files until "df" says the partition is 111% full.) -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin