Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!novavax!ankh!megasys!pax From: pax@megasys.com (Garry M. Paxinos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: lost inodes under ISC 1.0.6 Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 09:06:34 GMT References: <1990Nov20.164220.9662@cs.fau.edu> <1990Nov23.131138.5137@virtech.uucp> Sender: pax@megasys.COM Organization: Megasystems, Inc. Delray Beach FL Lines: 38 In-reply-to: cpcahil@virtech.uucp's message of 23 Nov 90 13:11:38 GMT In article <1990Nov23.131138.5137@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: In article <1990Nov20.164220.9662@cs.fau.edu> pax@cs.fau.edu (Garry M. Paxinos) writes: >Recently, the free inode count on the root partition started to decrease >until about a week ago the count dropped to zero. Obviously the system >is now not operating... This is a known problem in just about all system V OSs. The problem is that the OS thinks the free inode count goes to zero when it really doesn't. Binary patches have been posted, but I don't think any of them were for 386/ix 1.0.6. The problem is associated with alot of file creations and deletions on a system (from your post I would guess that you are creating lots of files in /tmp or some other portion of the root file system). Hi Conner, Thanks for the advice, but I've been bitten many times by the inode problem you mention while running news for the past 5 years... Unfortunately that is not the problem. In the original post, I mentioned that only the operating system was running and the our applications were not running. Also, the system only has one uucp connection (to us) and does not get any news. Also, fsck does not reclaim the lost inodes and as I stated before comparing an 'ls -laR /' from one day to the next does not show anything signifcant... the inodes are just gone... Take care, Garry. -- E-Mail:pax@megasys.com pax@ankh.ftl.fl.us g.paxinos@compmail.com USNail:Megasystems, Inc. 2055 South Congress Ave, Delray Beach, FL 33445 UUCP :{gatech!uflorida!novavax!ankh, mthvax, herctec, attmail}!megasys!pax Voice :407-243-2405 Data: 407-243-2407 Fax: 407-243-2408 Telex: 156281499 "This is America, Right?!?!?" member of 2 Live Crew