From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 11 23:41:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA27757 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 23:41:35 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA27752 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 23:41:33 -0800 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id BAA26010; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:40:29 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511120740.BAA26010@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Odd crash after inode depletion.. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:40:28 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14332.816153387@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 11, 95 09:16:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I've got this message. Then system destroys my / partition. I also > > believe that was'nt a bug. I think it is nice feature added in kernel. ;) > > I have a hard time believing that the two are related. I've exhausted > inodes on our news server quite a few times (and on some of my own > machines) without any data corruption whatsoever. > > Be careful making assertions like this if you're not *really sure* > that a relationship exists. I do not see any of the investigative > work required to prove this one way or another given here. I've noticed an infrequent but consistent tendency for the system to panic with "free vnode isn't" some time after hitting inode exhaustion. With a sample size of only a few instances, all I can establish is that I have NOT seen a "free vnode isn't" panic without first having run out of inodes. (system is running 1026-SNAP, by the way, which may be significant - I never saw this panic under 2.0.5R, but then again, I can't recall ever having run out of inodes under 2.0.5R) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847