heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (09/20/90)
Someone told me that when installing Esix Rev. D on "large" (300 meg
or larger I think), and selecting the Esix FFS for the filesystem type,
there is a bug which causes an incorrect number of inodes to be
allocated. Apparently the "normal" 5.3.2 filesystem type is OK in this
respect (but purportedly has poorer performance).
Does anyone else know anything about this alleged bug? The person who
told me about this said there is a fix that can be made to the boot
disk (but he didn't tell me what it is) to correct the problem. I
did get a copy of the "fixed" boot disk, but it wouldn't boot. Since
I later found from someone on the net that this same consultant had
tried to rip me off on a tape drive (gave me a price almost double
what the going price is:-(, I don't want to go back to him for the
answer to this question. (and I didn't go back to get another disk
after the first one wouldn't boot)
The bottom line: Has anyone else running Esix run into this problem?
I was told that Esix will have it fixed in a forthcoming update. Any
truth to this? Since I hope to be running news soon, this inode thing
is a concern to me.
In case it matters, the hardware config is as follows:
80386 25mhz, 8mb ram
CDC 307mb drive (285mb formatted)
Adaptec 1542b SCSI host adapter
Also,
on a sort-of related note: what are you'all using for a swap partition
on your Esix systems? By default, it configured a 16mb partition. The
most swap space I've seen it use so far is about 1mb! I'm thinking about
reducing this to 8mb or less to get back a little wasted space.
(I have to re-install anyway to get back my 20mb dos partition that is
wasted. I figure a couple of mb (maybe 5 at max) would suffice for those
few times I want to boot from dos without having to deal with a
floppy (i.e., running adaptec pgms, etc.)
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