Patch for disappearing inodes

[Pete Alleman]

I've been bit by the disappearing inode bug in System V one too many times.
Since I have only a binary license, I fixed the problem by patching
the offending object file (alloc.o).

The fix was simply to have the search for more inodes always start with
inode 1 instead of whatever inode was first in the free list.  I realize
that I will pay a performance penalty (slow is better than stopped), but
how much?

My own experiences lead me to believe that the inode list is refilled
infrequently, so I would expect that a few extra seconds spent searching
for inodes would have little impact on system performance. Right?

-- 
Pete Alleman
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	digitran!pja