Out of inodes while unbatching news

[Frank Kaefer - Sun Germany CSD - Munich]

del at fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:

| In a nutshell: When news is unbatching, at some point the number of free
| inodes suddenly goes to zero, and the news starts trying to fill the bit
| bucket on the floor.  Killing rnews, unmounting the file system, fsck'ing,
| and remounting brings back the free inodes.  The problem occurs at a random
| time, from a hundred articles to a couple of thousand articles.  The problem

I have EXACTLY the same problem ! And I am also extremly desperate.
My machine is a AT386 running Interactive IX 2.0.2. If anyone has
any idea, I would be very glad to get some help.

Frank.
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