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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Large amount of INODES - had problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.204059.20715@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 24 Apr 91 20:40:59 GMT
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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Hi,

When I tested WNEWS I fed it with about 1 MB News each day. Now I tried
2.5 MB but had only about 50 groups in the active-file. So the junk-
directory filled up with about 1200 Files. The directory-file junk
was afterwards about 19 KB large.
I wanted to ls the directory, ls coredumped. Maybe they never thought
that a silly guy could try to have more than 1000 Files in one directory.
The problem I had was that rm * never stopped. There seemed to be a
recursive file structure and so rm couldn't finish
I now solved the problem with  ls -i junk (to find out the inode) and
clri this inode.
I now have no idea if it is a problem in WNEWS or a problem of Coherent.
I saw no error in inews, the file that puts the articles into the direc-
tories. It opens article-files, write them, close them.
Has anyone outthere who runs a News - System on Coherent had such 
problems (News seems to be the only usage where such large amounts of
files may occur) ?

Thanks

Joachim

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