In message <199409171825.OAA11241@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
	"Charles M. Hannum" writes:
>   >>does anyone else see a lot of duplicated inodes after during a lot of
>   >>disk access? (a lot == building the world or something equally as large.)
>   >
>   >Yes!  Or after untarring a large set of files, etc.
>   >
>   >fsck loves to find DUPs for me when I do this.
>
>Are the file systems in question nearly full?  I remember some strange
>lossage, possibly related to block relocating, that happened on full
>or nearly-full file systems.

in my case, i've seen it in both partitions that were 80-90% full,
and on partitions that were about 50% full.

>You might try changing `doreallocblks' (both definitions) in
>vfs_cluster.c to `0' and see if it helps.

thanks for the tip.

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