Once upon a time, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM(a)comcast.net> said:
It's a problem that crops up occasionally, and makes people
wonder why they get a "No space on filesystem" error when the df command shows
that plenty of space is available. That's why the df command has a "-i"
option to report inode usage. A filesystem that's being used for things like a news
spool, which holds lots of small files, needs to be created with more than the default
allocation of inodes.
Heh, I haven't run a Usenet server in just over 23 years, but even then,
server software was moving away from the file-per-article storage to
avoid this issue (and others).
Mail servers, on the other hand, were jumping to the file-per-message
method just as fast as Usenet servers discarded it, and are still using
it.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>