inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico

John Mackin john at basser.oz
Mon Sep 26 18:46:29 AEST 1988


In article <58 at n8ino.UUCP> craig at n8ino.UUCP (R. Craig Peterson (n8ino)) writes:

> There is a known bug in most UNIX releases that causes systems to
> loose track of free inodes when there are alot of file
> deletions/creations, as is the case with running news.

Absolutely incorrect.  Change `most UNIX releases' into `some
releases of System V' for the correct version.

> This is one bug that isn't unique to XENIX.

No, just unique to System V.  `Consider it broken.'

John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,
	     University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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