SUMMARY: inodes and AdvFS

[Chris Bryant <cbryant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: inodes and AdvFS

Thanks to David L. Smith, Jerome M. Berkman, and alan@nabeth.cxo.cpqcorp.net for their responses.  It was Alan's response that best explained it.

 

    As long as you can still create files, it won't matter to applications that don't look first. However, if an

    application checks to see if there are enough "free file spots" left for it do its work, and find there aren't

    it will probably fail. I read something recently to suggest that setld(8) is one such application. 

    It could be argued that what happened to your domain is a bug...

 

 

Thanks again,

 

Chris Bryant
Unix Administrator
Dollar Rent A Car
(918) 669-3213

Admins,

        I think that I know the answer to this already but here goes, I have a Tru64 5.1A system with advfs file systems.  Here is the output of df -i command for a specific file system

Filesystem            512-blocks        Used   Available Capacity           Iused     Ifree          %Iused  Mounted on
var_domain#var      6304752      180638     6104864     3%                10654    10402356     0%     /var

I ran quotacheck -v /var

then I checked the inodes again and here was the output
Filesystem           512-blocks        Used       Available Capacity     Iused              Ifree  %Iused  Mounted on
var_domain#var     6304752           180150     6104832     3%         10412955           0   100%    /var

        I did a test to see if I could write a file to this directory and I could so the question that I have is this, since this is a AdvFS file domain does it matter that the inodes are showing as all used?

TIA,

Chris Bryant
Unix Administrator
Dollar Rent A Car
(918) 669-3213