scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) (10/03/89)
Chalk up YA site being bitten by the System 5 lost inode bug. My vendor doesn't do Unix anymore (that I know of), and it's not a terribly standard system, so I have little hope of seeing the bug fixed. Since it is of course hitting my news spool filesystem hardest, I would like to mitigate the effects by hacking [ir]news to spool the entire batch on a low inodes condition. The necessary code changes were entirely trivial; however, I have no idea of whether they are really meaningful. Does anybody know how the out-of-inodes condition progresses? that is, does a stricken system decay steadily from the "real" inode count down toward 0 or 1, or do things look normal until blammo! ifree is (<100|=1) or whatever? Perhaps a periodic repost of one of the analyses of the problem would be useful. -- Scott Hazen Mueller| scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (ames|pyramid|vsi1)!zorch!scott 685 Balfour Drive | (408) 298-6213 |Mail to fusion-request@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG San Jose, CA 95111 |No room for quote.|for sci.physics.fusion digests via email