The INfamous inode bug

[Richard Foulk]

>  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.

As I recall it requires a certain sequence of events to make this bug
awaken -- Cnews doesn't seem to tickle it at all.



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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com