misc/160586: newsyslog can't properly rotate log files when there are no enough inodes

[Leonid Evdokimov]

>Number:         160586
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       newsyslog can't properly rotate log files when there are no enough inodes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 09 12:00:18 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Leonid Evdokimov
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0 r221983M
>Organization:
Yandex
>Environment:
FreeBSD daisy2.yandex.ru 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0 r221983M: Mon Jul 11 18:02:06 MSD 2011     root at distillatory.yandex.ru:/place/mkdump_workdir/obj/place/GIT-repos/FreeBSD-8-stable/sys/stable8-amd64-dtrace  amd64
>Description:
All rotated files were collapsed into one inode. That's a bug. A serious one.

[darkk at daisy2 /var/log]$ ls -li /var/log/messages*
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.0
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.1
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.2
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.3
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.4
5822 -rw-r--r--  7 root  wheel  8839522 Sep  9 15:49 /var/log/messages.5
[darkk at daisy2 /var/log]$ head -1 /var/log/messages
Sep  8 16:00:00 daisy2 newsyslog[41658]: logfile turned over due to size>500K
>How-To-Repeat:
Fill /var partition with small files to use all inodes and try to rotate logs afterwards.
>Fix:


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