From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 12 01:24:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA01537 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:24:24 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA01503 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:24:17 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA06012; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:24:11 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA03473; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:24:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA18740; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:20:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511120920.KAA18740@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Odd crash after inode depletion.. To: root@gateway.net.hk (System Administrator) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:20:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: jgreco@solaria.sol.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "System Administrator" at Nov 12, 95 12:29:47 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 633 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As System Administrator wrote: > > > Nov 6 19:56:59 hummin /kernel: uid 8 on /news/.0: out of inodes > > Nov 6 19:57:00 hummin /kernel: uid 8 on /news/.0: out of inodes > > Nov 6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel: panic: free vnode isn't > I do not believe it is bug. news uses *lots* of small files. A news > filesystem should be newfs for smaller blocks and more inodes. see man > newfs -b and -i The bug is that the system should not panic with ``free vnode isn't''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)