Problem with TU80 on 4.2BSD on VAX 11/750.

[Stephen J. Muir]

I tried to use the following shell script:

set -ex
cd
du archive > ARCHIVED 2>&1
tar c archive
tar tv archive >> ARCHIVED 2>&1
mt offline
rm -rf archive

The second "tar" said it couln't open the tape.  I waited until it rewound and
tried again; but no joy.  Using "pstat -i", all the open files were on the
disk.  I resorted to clearing the open-once flag by patching "/dev/kmem".  I
managed to use the tape drive again but the same problem recurred later.
Messages saying "inode table full" appeared some 3 hours later.  The system
crashed 6 hours after that.

I looked at the file "/sys/vaxuba/ts.c" and could see nothing wrong.
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