Composed in the early morning hours, in frustration about
not having enough
disk space on a server....
Holding Out For An Inode.
Rupert Scammell
April 9, 2001.
(to Holding Out For a Hero, by Bonnie Tyler)
Where has all the disk space gone,
and where are all the blocks?
and where's the rm -rf command to fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a gzip, upon a fiery steed,
Late at night I toss and turn, and dream of what I need...
(reframe)
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the end of
the night...
The disk's got to be strong, and it's got to be fast, and
it's got
to be mounted read/write..
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the morning
light..
I've got to have more, and it's got to been soon, and it's
got to have
ten gigabytes...
Somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasy,
Somewhere just beyond my reach,
There's SCSI-1 reaching back for me,
Racing on the read write head,
And air-cooled against the heat,
It's going to take an fsck to sweep me off my feet
(reframe)
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the end of
the night...
The disk's got to be strong, and it's got to be fast, and
it's got
to be mounted read/write..
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the morning
light..
I've got to have more, and it's got to been soon, and it's
got to have
ten gigabytes..
Up where the Mountain tapes meet the heavens above,
Up where the lightning splits the Seagate,
I would swear that there's a volume, somewhere, caching me
Through the hinv and the stack and the frames,
and the storm and the RAID,
I can feel its I/O like the fire in my 'Blade
(reframe)
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the end of
the night...
The disk's got to be strong, and it's got to be fast, and
it's got
to be mounted read/write..
I need some inodes, I'm holding out for some inodes 'till
the morning
light..
I've got to have more, and it's got to been soon, and it's
got to have
ten gigabytes...