Xref: utzoo news.admin:6581 comp.unix.wizards:17661 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse 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 Lines: 18 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 old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu