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From: akar@mhm.UUCP (AkarBega)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Large amount of INODES - had problems
Message-ID: <910424507@mhm.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:58:57 GMT
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joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> 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) ?

	Have you ever try to chmod 444 on /usr/man/COHERENT? If yes, may be
you can see the same problem as yours. I've this problem when I'm lazy enuff
to put a new man pages to other directory and just put them in /usr/man/
COHERENT and just chmod 444 /usr/man/COHERENT... and I stuck and the only
way I can continue was to reboot my system..!!

	I've run WNEWS for couple of days on my system and never got any
experience as yours, I think it is COHERENT.


> Thanks
> Joachim

	-mid-