Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:17:07 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: scrappy@hub.org, marc@bowtie.nl, neal@pernet.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <199703111617.KAA28205@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199703102215.PAA23669@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 10, 97 03:15:14 pm
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> Are you rebuilding the index file each time you crash? If not, you > may end up with "stale" index entries for articles which no longer > exist on your machine, either becuse they were being written at the > time of the crash, or because the crash caused their directory entries > to disappear, or because the index was being updated at the time of > the failure. > > This isn't a big deal, but it is a potential problem that would not > be obvious following a successful completion of a fsck, which only > picks *a* consistent state to restore to, not *the* consistent state. Terry, what ARE you babbling about? We're discussing INN here, not some hypothetical news system. INN is particularly good at recovering from a crash, although there are a few things on my wish list, but worrying about some mythical "index file" is not among them. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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