Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!bigtuna!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: The INfamous inode bug Message-ID: <1991Jan5.234402.8529@pegasus.com> Date: 5 Jan 91 23:44:02 GMT References: <43@esacs.UUCP> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Lines: 13 > The "in"famous inode-bug causes the OS to "lose" (ie. your inode count >decreases without inodes being allocated) inodes at rather heavy inode >deallocation/allocation circumstances. Specially this will pop up when >processing USENET news. Sooner or later you'll be biten with this problem. >The cure is to umount, fsck and mount the filesystem again. As I recall it requires a certain sequence of events to make this bug awaken -- Cnews doesn't seem to tickle it at all. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com