Out of inodes while unbatching news

[Eric Schnoebelen]

In article <fkk.646998181 at wynge> fkk at wynge.Central.Sun.COM 
		(Frank Kaefer - Sun Germany CSD - Munich) writes:
- 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.
- 
- 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.

        Well, I have found that C news does not aggravate this bug in
the System V file system code the way that B news does.  Actually, it
does not induce the bug at al.  How do I know?  Well, I picked up a
patch for the System V, release 2 ialloc() function that printed out a
message when the error occurred, and after switching to C news, I never
saw the error.

        C news runs beautifully on 386/ix, just as it did on my
Microport System V/AT system.  In the case of the Microport System,
switching to C news made the machine usable once again.

	Just a satisified C news user.. [Thanks Henry and Geoff!]


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