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From: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth, NO7K)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Wierd 3b inode problem with news.
Message-ID: <728@nud.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 12:19:14 EST
Article-I.D.: nud.728
Posted: Mon Nov  9 12:19:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:18:53 EST
References: <283@paisano.UUCP>
Reply-To: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth, NO7K)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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Keywords: 3b2 inode file system
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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'm having
->a strange problem with the news file system (news is on its
...
->Everything went smoothy for a while, until the feed dried up
->temporarily and the news volume dropped, thus emptying out
->the file system somewhat.  When the feed returned to full
->volume, 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
->it, got a "free inode count in superblock (fix?)" message
->back from fsck, told it to fix it, remounted the file system
->and again everything went smoothly until the news volume
->dropped again, and the same thing happened.

I have seen the same thing on my 68020 system running System V R3
code.  Somehow, the free inode count goes to 0 though there are
thousands of free inodes.  It happens every month or so.
I haven't noticed the correlation with news volume, but there may
be one.  I would be very interested in a fix.

-Dale