Xref: utzoo comp.bugs.sys5:590 comp.unix.questions:9466 comp.unix.xenix:3465 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!mirror!redsox!campbell From: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico Message-ID: <454@redsox.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 18:21:16 GMT References: <585@elandes.UUCP> <58@n8ino.UUCP> <587@elandes.UUCP> Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 10 In article <587@elandes.UUCP> dave@elandes.UUCP (D. Mathis) writes: } }I guess I didn't make my main concern evident. The real problem is not }the lost inodes, I know that at times the kernel loses track of the free }list. The REAL PROBLEM is that uucico doesn't check for valid writes }when it is receiving files, thereby creating any number of 'valid' 0 length }files. I beleive it should fail on the write and fail on the receive. Get Honey DanBer. Probably the single most winning feature of HDB is that it Does The Right Thing when the disk fills up.