Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard
From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SunOS file corruption
Message-ID: <1744@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Feb 90 17:19:38 GMT
References: <46435@improper.coherent.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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>I have heard that there was an old BSD bug such that if you let your
>disk get more than 90% full you were likely to "lose files" or
>"create garbage inodes" or similar ugly things.  

It's nonsense.  I don't think I've ever seen a disk less than 90% full :-(
The rumour probably relates to the fact the the Berkeley filesystem reserves
10% of its space to improve performance.  (Root is not subject to this
restriction, hance it can go on creating files until "df" says the
partition is 111% full.)

-- Richard
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