Re: inode leakage, 2.1.130?
Vegard Engen (vegard.engen@eunet.no)
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:20:53 +0100
> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Vegard Engen wrote:
>
> > My root-filesystem, which I unfortunately (or fortunately, else I wouldn't
> > have found this problem) had placed my news spool on temporarily, is leaking
> > inodes with 2.1.130. The following is my attempts of a systematic description.
> (...)
> > [root@middagspynten next]# rm -rf advocacy
>
> Did you check for hard links? Do an 'ls -i' to find the inums of the
> files you're deleting, then do a `find -inum <foo>` to see if there are
> other references to those same inums in your file system. You will probably
> end up being suprised by what your news system does.
Ok. That explains. I wasn't aware of the fact that it used hard links.
Disregard my message about inode leakage, I don't believe it does that,
anymore. The symptoms I've seen are consistent with usage of hard links.
Just a coincidence that I ran out of inodes about the same time as I upgraded
to 2.1.129, I guess...
- Vegard, who upgraded to experiment with ipchains, and really like the
flexibility of it! My home box have never been more secure towards internet :)
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