In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
> In article <1994Sep30.195337.30396@miavx1>,
> [log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) wrote:
> :As you already know by now, NEWS is again functioning normally (we hope).
> :
> :NEWS was down today from around 9:00AM until 7:30PM for maintenance.  The
> :disks that NEWS usually reside on ran out of file header space late last
>
> Hmmm.  I got that error requesting temp space early this morning.  What
> is "file header space?"
 
File header space is the space where OpenVMS keeps track of all of the
files on a disk (similar to inodes on Unix or, in a far-reaching example,
similar to the FAT table in DOS).  This file can exand as needed, but only
to a certain extent.  We had exceeded that extension limit.  Therefore, no
new files could be created on the disk.  TEMP space was moved to a
different disk early yesterday morning due to this problem.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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