> 
> 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.)
> 

Only when I have the external cache turned on by accident.  This is on
my noname 386 upgradable.  It was independent of whether I am using the
386 that came with it, or a Cyrix 486 that I bought specifically for it.