Re: inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico

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From: John Mackin
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1988 08:46

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In article <58@n8ino.UUCP> craig@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

john@basser.oz.AU (john%basser.oz.AU@UUNET.UU.NET)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!john
From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico
Summary: it's a SysVile bug, those without that problem need not worry
Message-ID: <1489@basser.oz>
Date: 26 Sep 88 08:46:29 GMT
References: <585@elandes.UUCP> <58@n8ino.UUCP>
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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