inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico

[R. Craig Peterson]

In article <585 at elandes.UUCP> dave at elandes.UUCP (Dave Mathis @ ELAN designs) writes:

>Recently my system lost some inodes and decided that the disk was full
>(it wasn't).  In itself, that wasn't too disasterous, a simple set of
>fsck's can take care of the results.  The real problem started when
 ....
> is a way to prevent this.  The system is  SCO Xenix 2.2 (286) on a real
> IBM AT. 

>Dave Mathis                    UUCP oliveb!elandes!dave

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.

I don't remember the details of the actual problem, but you would
certainly need source to the kernel file system code in order to fix
it.  Maybe Microsoft/SCO has a fix to this problem.  If not, you will
have to go on fsck'ing.

BTW I think a corrected code fragment was posted to the net, give or
take a year ago...  I don't know if I still have it around.

This is one bug that isn't unique to XENIX.
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R. Craig Peterson (N8INO)
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