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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Out of inodes.  SunOS4.0, gripe.
Message-ID: <1614@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 09:08:05 GMT
References:  <1989Aug6.074441.15954@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <1989Aug6.074441.15954@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article  flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>> C News is mostly graceful in the presence of full disks, but does
>> nothing to protect you from running out of inodes.

> Sigh... yeah.  I thought about this a bit, but if you thought C News
> had to stand on its head to more-or-less-portably figure out how much
> space was available, well, finding out inodes is worse.

Indeed, there may not even *be* inodes...and when there is something
like them, there may not be any limit on how many are available.

(Assumption: C news will work when its disk areas are NFS-remote.)

					der Mouse

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