Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!edson!tic!dragos!work
From: work@dragos.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Does uPort crash with full disks...
Message-ID: <403@dragos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 04:20:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UNIX Device, Canada
Lines: 21
Keywords: No crash


  Well with all the bug list screaming, I thought someone might appreciate
  a positive posting.

  Comp.unix.wizards has been having a discussion about systems crashing
  after no disk space remains. Well, I was pleasantly surprised when uPort
  didn't. I was playing around wih some funny speed processors, and managed
  to corrupt my filesystem, free list so it only listed a total of 27 free
  blocks on all partitions on both disks.

  The system chunked away unattended for four hours on news and uucp traffic
  without a crash. (All the news batches got properly dumped though :-()
  It stayed up and let me do a fsk and clean up some of the problem. A
  reboot fixed the root partition and I didn't even lose a single file.

  I was quite impressed, I have used BSD systems that wouldn't have taken
  this abuse....

-- 
Dragos Ruiu   ruiu@dragos.UUCP
        ...alberta!dragos!ruiu   "cat ansi.c | grep -v noalias >proper.c"