On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:51:17PM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
>
>Can anybody point me to a good source of information on un*x file
>systems. I am especially interested in what a inode is, what its
>function is, and how it affects me. The reason being I had a problem
>over the weekend with a Mandrake box (I have about had it with Mandrake
>for a server) where it acted like I ran out of space on the root
>parition. The odd thing is that it did not run out of space.. For some
>reason my /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directories are absolutely
>full of of very tiny files. So I never actually ran out of space, but
>the partition ran out of inodes. Very odd, and very anonying. But I must
>say, I am truely impressed with the fact that the server never crashed.
>I would like to see a NT box fill the root drive and still be running.
>Now to figure out what the hell happend this weekend. Ack.
>
Yours is not the first Mandrake box i've seen lately with this problem.
I assume the Mandrake install includes some hosed options to mkfs when
it creates the ext2 filesystems.
As to inodes, http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lki/index.html has some
stuff on them from a kernel programming perpective, http://www.namesys.com/
has some similar stuff from a reiserfs perpsective,
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html has some more introductory
level stuff; and of course, there's "Operating Systems: Design And
Implementation" by Tannenbaum and Woodhull, ISBN: 0136386776 , the Minix
book that spawned Linux, as well as "The Design and Implementation of the
4.4BSD Operating System", ISBN 0-201-54979-4, with the BSD perspective.
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