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From: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Big news drive = crash?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:03:34 -0700
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Is there an inode and/or file limit that would cause FreeBSD's kernel to
panic? I'm running INN 1.4unoff4 and I've got a mix of 4 gig and 2 gig
drives. On my linux machine, I had to partition the crap out of those
drives because it had an inode limit of 1.5 million. However, someone told
me FreeBSD wouldn't have the same problem. The 2 gigs and the 4 gig aren't
partitioned. I've checked all the drives using fsck and the Adaptec BIOS
verify command. When it crashes it just says someting about a bad
directory, the kernel is in a panic, later... After these crashes fsck
reports a few problems, but says it's fixed em. I've tried reformatting
and creating a new system on the drives, but it's no good.

Anyhelp would be much appreciated.

Since I can't keep my news machine alive for even a day, please respond
via email if at all possible.

Jon