Re: DEVICEFULL with 25 million free blocks! (Long)

From: John Laird (nospam_at_laird-towers.org.uk)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:26:23 +0000

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:05:27 +0000, Gerald Marsh
<gerald-@-cyfer-remove_this.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I thought that the contiguous space was a problem as that was tight on
>the old drive but 2.5 million blocks of contiguous space suggests I
>was chasing red herrings!

I wouldn't be surprised if the software isn't confusing itself. Perhaps
your disk is too big and has too many free blocks for some dumb internal
calculation to work without overflowing ? It might be trying to extend a
file, looking at existing size, working out some percentage and then
incorrectly judging whether the disk has the required space.

I looked after a system using FaxSr for many years and never saw anything
like this, and we managed to just about fill the system disk on many an
occasion... I do recall the history purge function was completely broken
and it was necessary to manually create new files from time to time.
Furthermore, the supplied .FDLs are confusingly named, somtimes internally
refer to files of different names, and there is, if I am not wrong, one
missing. The whole package was never Y2K-qualified but did continue to work
- one set of output files did contain dates like 1-Jan-100, though.

Although it worked reasonably well, I thought the whole compose-modem
server sequence took far too long unless wakeup intervals were set very
short, quality was terrible in standard resolution (and fine costs nearly
twice as much per call), and the licensing system was just short of
criminal. (Rename your node - certainly sir, please send relicensing fee
to...) Plus I did come across an inbuilt expiry date once. To be fair,
that was fixed pdq. 

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