Out of inodes. SunOS4.0, gripe.

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Aug 17 05:07:36 AEST 1989


>Indeed, there may not even *be* inodes...and when there is something
>like them, there may not be any limit on how many are available.

Well, the software from which C news gets its idea of "how many free
inodes" could conceivably cough up MAXLONG or something like that. 

>(Assumption: C news will work when its disk areas are NFS-remote.)

Unfortunately, in the case of the current NFS protocol, there's no way
to find out how many free files there are on a remote file system, even
if said file system supports the notion, which is why e.g.  a "df"
asking for the number of inodes gives you garbage over NFS.  The next
protocol revision should fix this. 



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