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From: mason@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bad free inode count in superblock
Keywords: inode
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.192501.11237@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:25:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.165732.23367@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA/MSFC
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I wrote:

>Problem:  The FREE INODE COUNT in the Superblock of the /usr 
>	  filesystem will be corrupted periodically to incorrectly
>	  indicate that there are no free inodes in the system.
>	  [df -i reports 0 in the free inode column].
>
>There are no applications running on the system when the inode
>problem occurs except for CNEWS (15-Dec-90 patchlevel) and nntp (1.5.8).
>Both were recompiled after the OS upgrade.


It was suggested that some System V implementations exhibit this
problem when large numbers of files are created/deleted in a short
span of time (as is likely to happen when news is running).

Further, there is supposed to be a fix for this.  Can anyone
provide additional info?


Thanks to those who responded:
 Matthew J. Wicks <wicks@dcdmjw.fnal.gov>
 wicinski%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Tim Wicinski)

-Jim
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