Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!john From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: inode amnesia, no disk space and uucico Summary: it's a SysVile bug, those without that problem need not worry Message-ID: <1489@basser.oz> Date: 26 Sep 88 08:46:29 GMT References: <585@elandes.UUCP> <58@n8ino.UUCP> Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 18 In article <58@n8ino.UUCP> craig@n8ino.UUCP (R. Craig Peterson (n8ino)) writes: > There is a known bug in most UNIX releases that causes systems to > loose track of free inodes when there are alot of file > deletions/creations, as is the case with running news. Absolutely incorrect. Change `most UNIX releases' into `some releases of System V' for the correct version. > This is one bug that isn't unique to XENIX. No, just unique to System V. `Consider it broken.' John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia john@basser.oz.AU (john%basser.oz.AU@UUNET.UU.NET) {uunet,mcvax,ukc,nttlab}!munnari!basser.oz!john