Subject: Re: Disappearing files.....[long, new case/infos]
From: Robert B. Bell (rbell@tv.rsc.raytheon.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 15:51:09 EST
As someone else stated,
the problem is related to the volume id and inode number
mapping to the DID.
With "large" ext2 filesystems (>=2 or 4 GB),
the number of inodes created by default is larger
than the number bits allocated to the DID by the inode number.
I think, but I am not sure, that the ext2 filesystem
does not reuse the inode right away,
or it doesn't allocate starting a 1 and continuing from there.
That causes the high inode numbers to be allocated also,
which means high inode number map with the mask
to a low inode number's DID.
You can view the number of inodes created by "df -i" on most unix/linux.
You can view the inode number of file by "ls -i file".
I believe if you keep the number of inodes less than the number that fits
into the DID mask, every will work ok.
Robert.
BWS - Offwhite wrote:
>
> It sounds like the DID kludge may be a problem. I am glad I am still
> using an older version of Netatalk. I typically stay away from releases
> and wait till they mature a bit.
>
> This could be why Linux seems to have hit hard by this. The distros like
> to get the latest goods out there. The FreeBSD port is still an older
> version which does not have this problem.
>
>
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