Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!i2unix!esacs!pizzi From: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: The INfamous inode bug Message-ID: <45@esacs.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 91 13:26:46 GMT References: <43@esacs.UUCP> Reply-To: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi) Organization: Esa Software s.r.l. Rimini (FO), ITALY Lines: 17 > 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. Hmmm... I'm running ISC 2.2 from 3 month now (I've ran 2.0.2 for about one year without problems) and I'm spooling a *lot* of news every night (about 1,5-2 Mb). I didn't notice anything strange with my filesystem. Are you sure it was not a problem with your hw? Rick -- Riccardo Pizzi @ ESA Software, Rimini, ITALY e-mail: pizzi%esacs@relay.EU.NET -or- root@xtc.SUBLINK.ORG << Object Oriented is an Opaque Disease >>