Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!omepd!radix!jimv
From: jimv@radix (Jim Valerio)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Free inode-list exhaustion
Summary: Binary patch available for SysVr3/386
Message-ID: <78@radix>
Date: 18 Jan 89 23:59:58 GMT
References: <778@sl10c.concurrent.co.uk> <1525@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jimv@radix.UUCP (Jim Valerio)
Organization: Radix MicroSystems, Beaverton
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In article <1525@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> wescott@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM
(Mike Wescott) supplies a source code fix for the free-inode bug in the
System V filesystem.  I have effectively the same workaround available as
a binary patch, if you're running a 386 AT-style System V Release 3.

The patch is applied by a program which creates a modified /unix.  I've been
running this patch for well over a month now, and I am certain that it has
solved the free-inode bug (which used to hit my system as often as several
times a day).

The downside here is that the program which applies the patch is really a
hack I threw together quite some time ago to apply a number of bug fixes to
a pre-release of Sys V Rel 3.0.  (I've toyed with the idea of turning this
into a generalized SysVr3/386 patching utility, but I've never simulataneously
had the time and energy.)  However, if you're suffering from this problem
and feel comfortable with potentially modifying the patch program to apply
the patch to your system, I'd be happy to send you the program.
--
Jim Valerio	{verdix,tektronix,omepd}!radix!jimv, jimv@omepd.intel.com