I-node limit on 3B2 with System V R3.2.2

[DoN Nichols]

In article <1991Feb7.164759.4550 at ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols at ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes:
>In article <1844 at devildog.att.com> jrallen at devildog.att.com (Jon Allen) writes:
>>In article <768 at skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> hellwig at skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Oliver Hellwig ) writes:
>>>I'm running System V R 3.2.2 on a 3B2/600G machine, and it seems that there
>>>is a limit of 64K i-nodes for a file system.  If this is true, then this
>>>would be a very serious failing, especially for someone like me who
>>
>>Yep, I have the very same problem.  This seems to be a MAJOR limitation to
>>running news on a 3B2.  I have plenty of disk space, but hit the 64K inode
>>limit.  The only alternative I know (besides using something else) is to
>>hack up news to allow multple file systems under /usr/spool/news.  Mods like
>>this have been/or are availble, but I have not used them.
>
>	If you have an extra filesystem to use, just stop news from running,
>use du to identify some branch at the first level below /usr/spool/news

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