I can of course telnet to the NetApp and check the number of inodes directly, but I'd like to do it from the Solaris box which feeds the NetApp with news articles. Any good suggestions?
I ran into the situation running inn on our Solaris machine, because it tries to do a df -i on the spool directory. They changed df so that it won't allow -i at all on an NFS mounted filesystem! I never tried a statvfs call directly to see if that would work... I had assumed it wouldn't work for v3 either.
Well, it does - as long as you call statvfs directly with your own program, of course.
I just commented out the df -i check in inn and made sure I had enough inodes on the filer. I didn't pick a *huge* value, but about double what I needed.
Yes, this is what I'm currently doing.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no