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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Wierd 3b inode problem with news.
Message-ID: <568@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 19:54:58 EST
Article-I.D.: nitrex.568
Posted: Sat Nov  7 19:54:58 1987
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References: <283@paisano.UUCP> <4259@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
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In article <4259@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes:
>In article <283@paisano.UUCP> demasi@paisano.UUCP (Michael C. De Masi) writes:
>>
>>I'm running usenet on a 3b2/400 Sys V r2.0.1 and ...
>>... I noticed that I was getting "out of inode" errors
>>when I knew full well there weren't nearly that many files
>>in the system.  So I unmounted the news file system, fsck'd
>>  ,,,
>
>I've noticed similar behaviour here on our 3B15 (SysV 2.1.2) with the
>news filesystem running out of inodes - a reboot always fixes it.  It
> ...

A similar "thing" happens on our Motorola 6600 (aka Convergent MegaFrame)
running SV.  Now and then a news directory "locks up" and rnews can't put
anything into it.  We're running 2.10 news and were hoping to "cure" the
problem with 2.11 soon.

-- 
Rob Lake
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