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To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/2178: not enough free inodes on boot.flp's MFS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Dec 1996 16:50:02 PST."
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Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:22:02 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Workaround: reduce number of bytes per inode from 120000 down to 80000.
	    however, this leaves us precious few data blocks available
	    on the MFS disk.

Fix:	    when building the boot floppies, also check the free space
	    and number of free inodes to make sure there is enough EXTRA
	    slop to create as many inodes as needed (this would probably
	    be about 100 inodes in the case of a system install with
	    several SCSI disks each with multiple slices.  In addition
	    we also need to check the free data blocks to make sure there
	    is enough slop there for things like resolv.conf and temporary
	    files created for PPP et al.  I'd estimate that to be about 10
	    files of < 1k each.

	    I think it's time to give up on 1.2mb floppies or put the help
	    files on another diet.

  From: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org
  Subject: Re: misc/2178: not enough free inodes on boot.flp's MFS
  Thank you very much for your problem report.
  It has the internal identification `misc/2178'.
  The individual assigned to look at your
  bug is: freebsd-bugs. 
  
  >Category:       misc
  >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
  >Synopsis:       not enough free inodes on boot.flp's MFS
  >Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec  8 16:50:01 PST 1996