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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Alzheimer's Syndrome
Keywords: Lost_inodes
Message-ID: <8520@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 Sep 88 21:08:48 GMT
References: <576@mbph.UUCP> <406@amyerg.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <406@amyerg.UUCP> appleton@amyerg.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes:
>In Mr. Hybl's article, he mentions his /usr4 file system losing it's
>"memory" and suddenly running out of inodes. I have been encountering the
>same problem with my /usr system. I have a 3b2/300, am running news
>2.11 patchlevel 14, and take a full newsfeed.

That sounds like the kernel bug in the UFS code that was thoroughly
dicussed on comp.bugs.sys5 a few months ago.  I suggest nagging AT&T
for a fix.  Someone there MUST have heard about the problem and its
solution by now...