Subject: Re: building floppies problems
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 01/16/2001 17:02:05
According to Jeremy C. Reed:
>
>create ./dist/etc_obsolete: file system full
>

Yes, the recent change to increase the number of partitions we can
handle has blown out the number of inodes required by the /dev
directory.  This is a real problem.

>/mnt/bin/chmod
>     22   2208 -rwxr-xr-x   41 root     wheel      1121356 Jan 15 21:35
>/mnt/bin/cp
>     22   2208 -rwxr-xr-x   41 root     wheel      1121356 Jan 15 21:35
>/mnt/bin/dd
>     22   2208 -rwxr-xr-x   41 root     wheel      1121356 Jan 15 21:35
>/mnt/bin/df
>     22   2208 -rwxr-xr-x   41 root     wheel      1121356 Jan 15 21:35
>/mnt/bin/ed
>...
>
>All too large.
>

No, all linked to the same thing - note that the inode number is the
same for every file and the link count is > 1.  There is only one
binary file which is called ramdiskbin, most of the bins on the floppy
are hard linked to this because it saves space.

>
>Maybe this is fixed in current.
>

no, it is broken still AFAIK.

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