inode leakage, 2.1.130?

Vegard Engen (vegard.engen@eunet.no)
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:43:19 +0100

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.
This was done while the news-server was stopped, thus nothing is creating
files in a large quantity. First, the symptoms:

[root@middagspynten next]# ls advocacy/ | wc -l
369
[root@middagspynten next]# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 180848 180840 8 100% /
/dev/sda3 565248 63793 501455 11% /local
/dev/sda4 331776 78156 253620 24% /usr
[root@middagspynten next]# rm -rf advocacy
[root@middagspynten next]# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 180848 180839 9 100% /
/dev/sda3 565248 63793 501455 11% /local
/dev/sda4 331776 78156 253620 24% /usr
[root@middagspynten next]# sync
[root@middagspynten next]# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 180848 180839 9 100% /
/dev/sda3 565248 63793 501455 11% /local
/dev/sda4 331776 78156 253620 24% /usr

Reboot to single user:
--------
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 180848 180810 38 100% /
/dev/sda3 565248 63792 501456 11% /local
/dev/sda4 331776 78154 253622 24% /usr

A fsck did not reveal much interesting. Rebooting to multiuser again,
and the inode leakage continues.

- Vegard

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