DOS FS inode table overflow etc -- why ??

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cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>In article <1990May29.215243.370 at scuzzy.uucp> src at scuzzy.uucp (Source Admin) writes:
>>this is with ISC 2.0.2 and aha-1540a. NINODES is 400.

>The problem is with NDOSINODES.  I posted the following fix just a couple
>of days ago:

thanks for the information !!

however, i'd like to know WHY this happens, unfortunately i don't have sources
for find(1). why is it eating up inodes ?
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