Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <4702 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> Er, what about the disc running out of I-nodes?  Or going over quota?
> Or a file server dropping dead?

Well, yes, but those fall under the blanket of ``fatal errors'' which I
mentioned at the top of the article. (Actually, going over quota
shouldn't happen unless the system is strangely configured, but this is
beside the point.) There's a push-pull here between ``don't catch errors
you can't handle sensibly'' and ``don't dig your hole too deep.''

---Dan