i-nodes disappearing in SysVr3 filesystem

[Paul Burry]

About a year ago, a problem was mentioned in this group where a bug in
the System V filesystem was causing either i-nodes or blocks to disappear.

Well, I believe I am now experiencing this very problem.  When running
inews, the filesystem becomes corrupted and the number of free i-nodes
suddenly drops from ~2300 to ~1.  Only performing a fsck on the filesystem
restores the i-node count.

I remember a discussion in this group about a year ago where someone
described a similar problem with the filesystem.  My question is
what can we do to avoid this bug ?  I know that the filesystem should
probably be remade with more i-nodes, but will this eliminate the problem
or merely delay it ?

Our configuration is:
	- Motorola Delta Series M8000
	- System Vr3v3 Unix

/         (/dev/dsk/m323_0s0):     5258 blocks     2120 i-nodes
                   total:    25272 blocks    3152 i-nodes
/usr      (/dev/usr        ):    11600 blocks     8851 i-nodes
                   total:   103680 blocks   12960 i-nodes
/usr1     (/dev/usr1       ):    93710 blocks     2375 i-nodes
                   total:   152928 blocks   10000 i-nodes

So far, the problem has only occurred on the /usr1 filesystem.

Any help would be appreciated,
	Paul Burry
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