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From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Printer Problem And Minidisk Problem
Keywords: Previous Posting and New Problem (more examples)
Message-ID: <568@scifi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 03:37:37 GMT
References: <106@yamnet.UUCP>
Reply-To: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
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In article <106@yamnet.UUCP> rcsh@yamnet.UUCP writes:
> (A lot of stuff about not being able to create a file system 
> with a lot of inodes).

Well, unfortunately, AIX/RT is uses 16 bits for ino_t, as an unsigned
short.  So there is no way you can have more than 2**16-1 (65535)
inodes.  I suspect that poor df is underflowing or something.
Unfortunately, however, I've never been successful in convincing mkfs
to actually construct a file system with more than 32000 inodes.  I
suspect it is a hard coded limit, set that way out of paranoia worries
regarding programs that might want to treat the inode number as a
signed short.  Makes it tough to keep a full feed for two weeks, but I
found some groups to expire early :-).

In any case, the output from df seems bogus.

Additionally, 2.2 as distributed had the disappearing inode bug.  If
you are trying to run news on 2.2, make sure you get a recent version
of the fix diskettes from support.

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