mason@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason) (03/01/91)
I wrote: >Problem: The FREE INODE COUNT in the Superblock of the /usr > filesystem will be corrupted periodically to incorrectly > indicate that there are no free inodes in the system. > [df -i reports 0 in the free inode column]. > >There are no applications running on the system when the inode >problem occurs except for CNEWS (15-Dec-90 patchlevel) and nntp (1.5.8). >Both were recompiled after the OS upgrade. It was suggested that some System V implementations exhibit this problem when large numbers of files are created/deleted in a short span of time (as is likely to happen when news is running). Further, there is supposed to be a fix for this. Can anyone provide additional info? Thanks to those who responded: Matthew J. Wicks <wicks@dcdmjw.fnal.gov> wicinski%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Tim Wicinski) -Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jim Mason <mason@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> Systems Management <mason@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> NASA/Marshall Space Flight Centre