work@dragos.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu) (04/15/88)
Well with all the bug list screaming, I thought someone might appreciate
a positive posting.
Comp.unix.wizards has been having a discussion about systems crashing
after no disk space remains. Well, I was pleasantly surprised when uPort
didn't. I was playing around wih some funny speed processors, and managed
to corrupt my filesystem, free list so it only listed a total of 27 free
blocks on all partitions on both disks.
The system chunked away unattended for four hours on news and uucp traffic
without a crash. (All the news batches got properly dumped though :-()
It stayed up and let me do a fsk and clean up some of the problem. A
reboot fixed the root partition and I didn't even lose a single file.
I was quite impressed, I have used BSD systems that wouldn't have taken
this abuse....
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