The INfamous inode bug

[Riccardo Pizzi]

>  The "in"famous inode-bug causes the OS to "lose" (ie. your inode count
>decreases without inodes being allocated) inodes at rather heavy inode
>deallocation/allocation circumstances. Specially this will pop up when
>processing USENET news. Sooner or later you'll be biten with this problem.
>The cure is to umount, fsck and mount the filesystem again.

Hmmm... I'm running ISC 2.2 from 3 month now (I've ran 2.0.2 for about
one year without problems) and I'm spooling a *lot* of news every night
(about 1,5-2 Mb).
I didn't notice anything strange with my filesystem.
Are you sure it was not a problem with your hw?

Rick
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